| Authorised form of name | Shenstone; William Ashwell (1850 - 1908); chemist and schoolmaster |
| Dates | 1850 - 1908 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wells next the Sea, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 01 December 1850 |
| Place of death | Polurrian Hotel, Mullion, Cornwall, England |
| Date of death | 03/02/1908 |
| Occupation | chemist and schoolmaster |
| Research field | Pharmaceutical chemistry |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education: Colchester grammar school; awarded a Bell scholarship to train as a pharmaceutical chemist at the school of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London (1871); Science Master, Clifton College, Bristol (1880-1908).
Career: Apprentice pharmacist at his father's business; awarded the Pereira medal and was appointed demonstrator of practical chemistry in the school under Professor John Attfield (FRS 1880) (1872); joined Clifton College, Bristol as the assistant of William Augustus Tilden (FRS 1880) (1874)
appointed science master at Taunton School (1875); science master at Exeter grammar school (1877) and built a cheap laboratory which became a model for other public schools; returned to Clifton College, succeeding Tilden as senior science master (1880-1908).
Memberships:
FIC
Association of Public School Science Teachers |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/06/1898 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Proposer | Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; Raphael Meldola; John Perry; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; Arthur Mason Worthington; Charles Vernon Boys; Archibals Liversidge; John Beddoe |
| William Augustus Tilden; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Henry Edward Armstrong; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Thomas Edward Thorpe; William James Russell; William Ramsay |
| Relationships | Parents: James Burt Byron Shenstone, pharmaceutical chemist in Colchester, and Jemima, daughter of James Chapman, of Wells next the Sea.
Spouse: Jane Mildred, daughter of Reginald N. Durrant, rector of Wootton (27 December 1883)
Children: One son and one daughter |
| PublishedWorks | RCN R63402
RCN R63403 |
| OtherInfo | Collaborated with William Tilden in investigation of terpenes and the solubility of salts at high temperatures.
Pursued research on preparation of ozone and the properties of highly purified substances.
As a skilled glass-blower, he published an important practical manual on the subject in 1886 and introduced vitrified silica as a material for laboratory apparatus. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1909 vol 82 pp xxii-xxiv signed by W A T
References:
Sir Brian Pippard, FRS, 'Schoolmaster-Fellows and the campaign for science education' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 63-81, plate
N R Ingram, 'All that you can't leave behind' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 177-184 |
| Code | NA1664 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1898/16 | Shenstone, William Ashwell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/3/742 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol | 27 September 1889 |
| RR/16/184 | Referee's report by Richard Tetley Glazebrook, on a paper 'The optical properties of vitreous silica' by J W Gifford and William Ashwell Shenstone | 30 January 1904 |
| RR/16/183 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'The optical properties of vitreous silica' by J W Gifford and William Ashwell Shenstone | February 1904 |
| NLB/15/397 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to William Ashwell Shenstone, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Clifton College, Bristol | 21 September 1897 |
| NLB/16/596 | Copy letter of a notice from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [The Times] | 5 May 1898 |
| NLB/17/173 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 5 August 1898 |
| NLB/17/548 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 16 November 1898 |
| NLB/20/244 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 6 March 1900 |
| NLB/18/405 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to W A Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 March 1899 |
| NLB/25/493 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 11 November 1902 |
| NLB/20/379 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 April 1900 |
| NLB/20/277 | Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to William Ashwell Shenstone, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 10 March 1900 |
| NLB/21/482 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 November 1900 |
| NLB/23/2/443 | Copy letter sent from Joseph Larmor, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society, and J W Gifford | 24 February 1904 |
| NLB/28/319 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 February 1904 |
| NLB/28/360 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 23 February 1904 |
| NLB/28/397 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 February 1904 |
| NLB/28/406 | Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 1 March 1904 |
| NLB/33/3 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society, Tuffleigh, St Vincent's Rocks, Clifton | 14 June 1906 |
| NLB/32/667 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to William Shenstone, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 2 May 1906 |
| NLB/32/813 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 29 May 1906 |
| NLB/34/335 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society, 46 College Road, Clifton, Bristol | 4 January 1906 |
| MC/19/760 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Tuffleigh, St Vincent's Rocks, Clifton, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 6 February 1904 |
| RR/9/241 | Referee's report by James Dewar, on a paper 'On the solubility of salts in water at high temperatures' by William Augustus Tilden and William Ashwell Shenstone | 10 May 1884 |
| RR/9/242 | Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on a paper 'On the solubility of salts in water at high temperatures' by William Augustus Tilden and William Ashwell Shenstone | 15 January 1884 |
| PP/6/31 | Paper, 'On the solubility of calcium sulphate in water in the presence of chlorides' by William A [Augustus] Tilden and W A [William Ashwell] Shenstone | 1885 |
| PP/6/31/2 | Diagrams, experimental equipment and results by William A [Augustus] Tilden and W A [William Ashwell] Shenstone | 1885 |
| PP/6/31/1 | Manuscript, 'On the solubility of calcium sulphate in water in the presence of chlorides' by William A [Augustus] Tilden and W A [William Ashwell] Shenstone | 1885 |
| MC/23/176 | Letter from [James] William Gifford, Oaklands, Chard, to the Secretary, The Royal Society | 14 November 1908 |
| MC/23/462 | Letter from William [Augustus] Tilden, The Oaks, Northwood, [Middlesex], to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 28 September 1908 |
| MC/19/763 | Postcard from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Tuffleigh, St Vincent's Rocks, Clifton, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 17 September 1904 |
| MC/19/762 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Tuffleigh, St Vincent's Rocks, Clifton, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 8 August 1904 |
| MC/19/764 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Tuffleigh, St Vincent's Rocks, Clifton, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 22 September 1904 |
| MC/19/761 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 12 February 1904 |
| NLB/29/320 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 20 September 1904 |
| MC/19 | Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1904 |
| MC/21/571 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol, to [Joseph] Larmor | 9 May 1906 |
| MC/21/570 | Letter from [William Ashwell] Shenstone, Clifton College, Clifton, Bristol, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison | 11 March 1906 |
| NLB/32/455 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to William Ashwell Shenstone, Fellow of the Royal Society | 13 March 1906 |
| MC/21 | Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1906 |
| MC/23 | Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1908 |