| Authorised form of name | Dupre; August (1835 - 1907); analytical chemist |
| Dates | 1835 - 1907 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Mainz, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 06 September 1835 |
| Place of death | Mount Edgcumbe, Sutton, Surrey, England |
| Date of death | 15/07/1907 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Benhilton, Sutton, Surrey, England |
| Occupation | analytical chemist |
| Research field | Applied chemistry |
| Organic chemistry |
| Inorganic chemistry |
| Oenology |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Giessen; Darmstadt; Heidelberg. PhD (Heidelberg)
Career:
Went to London (1855); Lecturer in Chemistry, Westminister Hospital Medical School (1863-1897); Chemical Referee, Medical Department of the Privy Council Office; Public Analyst, City of Westminster (1873-1901); consulting chemist to the explosives department of the Home Office (1873); lecturer in toxicology at the London School of Medicine for Women (1874-1901); member of the War Office explosives committee (1888); member of the Ordnance Research Board (1906).
Memberships:
FCS (1860)
Institute of Chemistry (1877)
Society of Public Analysts (President 1877–8)
Society of Chemical Industry (1894-7) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1875 |
| Age at election | 40 |
| Proposer | Lionel Smith Beale |
| Frederick Guthrie |
| Balfour Stewart |
| George Bowdler Buckton |
| John Hall Gladstone |
| William Marcet |
| Henry Enfield Roscoe |
| Charles Brooke |
| Alfred Swaine Taylor |
| John Simon |
| John Stenhouse |
| Henry Bence Jones |
| Edward Frankland |
| William Odling |
| Relationships | Parents: J. F. Dupré, merchant of Huguenot background, and J. A. Schafer (d. 1835) of Frankfurt.
Spouse: Florence Maries, daughter of H T Robberds of Manchester (1876).
Children: Four sons and one daughter. |
| OtherInfo | Significantly contributed in making connections between bacterial theory and public health issues.
Involved in enquiries into Thames water and purification of sewage.
Consulted as an expert in trials and cases involving poisoning.
One of the leading British experts on explosives.
His investigations, in collaboration with William Odling (FRS 1859), revealed the almost universal presence of copper in vegetable and animal tissues.
First to observe, in collaboration with Henry Bence Jones (FRS 1846), the formation of ptomaines by the decomposition of animal matters. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1907-1908 vol 80 pp xiv-xviii |
| Code | NA6445 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| NLB/13/425 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 1 September 1896 |
| MM/14/154 | Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to August Dupre | 18 May 1868 |
| MM/14/162 | Letter from August Dupre, Westminster Hospital, to George Gabriel Stokes | 12 December 1872 |
| NLB/35/789 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 17 July 1907 |
| NLB/1/188 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr August Dupre, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 October 1886 |
| NLB/7/655 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr August Dupre, Fellow of the Royal Society | 6 April 1893 |
| NLB/16/623 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A Dupre, 2 Edinburgh Mansions, Howick Place, I.W. | 9 May 1898 |
| NLB/19/585 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 7 November 1899 |
| MC/23/198 | Letter from [Henry] Wilson Hake, Chemical Laboratory, Westminster Hospital Medical School, Caxton, Street, to Robert Harrison Esquire, Royal Society, Burlington House | 25 January 1908 |
| RR/6/113 | Referee's report by Thomas Andrews, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical properties of aqueous mixtures and solutions' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 21 April 1869 |
| RR/7/175 | Letter from August Dupre, on his paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 21 November 1872 |
| RR/7/171 | Memorandum by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre | 1872 |
| RR/6/112 | Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical properties of aqueous mixtures and solutions' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 22 March 1869 |
| RR/7/174 | Referee's report by James Prescott Joule, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre | 1872 |
| RR/6/110 | Referee's report by Thomas Andrews, on a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 11 June 1868 |
| RR/6/109 | Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page | 19 May 1868 |
| EC/1875/21 | Dupre, August: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/6/111 | Letter from August Dupré and Frederick James M Page, regarding a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and F J M Page | 15 July 1868 |
| RR/7/170 | Referee's report by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre | 24 February 1872 |
| RR/7/172 | Referee's report by Heinrich Debus, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre | 19 March 1872 |
| RR/7/173 | Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre | 6 September 1872 |
| MC/23/93 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House | 3 April 1908 |
| MC/23/200 | Letter from [Henry] Wilson Hake, Chemical Laboratory, Westminster Hospital Medical School, Caxton, Street, to Dr [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society] | 28 September 1908 |
| MC/23 | Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1908 |