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Authorised form of nameDupre; August (1835 - 1907); analytical chemist
Dates1835 - 1907
NationalityGerman
Place of birthMainz, Germany, Europe
Date of birth06 September 1835
Place of deathMount Edgcumbe, Sutton, Surrey, England
Date of death15/07/1907
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Benhilton, Sutton, Surrey, England
OccupationChemist
Research fieldAnalytical chemistry
Applied chemistry
Organic chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Oenology
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1875
Age at election40
ProposerLionel 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
RelationshipsParents: 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.
OtherInfoSignificantly 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.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1907-1908 vol 80 pp xiv-xviii
CodeNA6445
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
NLB/13/425Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 September 1896
MM/14/154Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to August Dupre 18 May 1868
MM/14/162Letter from August Dupre, Westminster Hospital, to George Gabriel Stokes12 December 1872
NLB/35/789Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons17 July 1907
NLB/1/188Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr August Dupre, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1886
NLB/7/655Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr August Dupre, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1893
NLB/16/623Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr A Dupre, 2 Edinburgh Mansions, Howick Place, I.W.9 May 1898
NLB/19/585Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons7 November 1899
MC/23/198Letter from [Henry] Wilson Hake, Chemical Laboratory, Westminster Hospital Medical School, Caxton, Street, to Robert Harrison Esquire, Royal Society, Burlington House25 January 1908
RR/6/113Referee'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 Page21 April 1869
RR/7/175Letter 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 Society21 November 1872
RR/7/171Memorandum 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 Dupre1872
RR/6/112Referee'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 Page22 March 1869
RR/7/174Referee'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 Dupre1872
RR/6/110Referee's report by Thomas Andrews, on a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page11 June 1868
RR/6/109Referee's report by Thomas Graham, on a paper 'The specific heat of mixtures of alcohol and water' by August Dupré and Frederick James M Page19 May 1868
EC/1875/21Dupre, August: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/6/111Letter 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 Page15 July 1868
RR/7/170Referee'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 Dupre24 February 1872
RR/7/172Referee'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 Dupre19 March 1872
RR/7/173Referee'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 Dupre6 September 1872
MC/23/93Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House3 April 1908
MC/23/200Letter from [Henry] Wilson Hake, Chemical Laboratory, Westminster Hospital Medical School, Caxton, Street, to Dr [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]28 September 1908
MC/23Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1908
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