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Authorised form of nameGladstone; John Hall (1827 - 1902); physical chemist
Dates1827 - 1902
NationalityBritish
Place of birth7 Chatham Place West, Hackney, Middlesex, England
Date of birth07 March 1827
Place of death17 Pembridge Square, Notting Hill, London, England
Date of death06/10/1902
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kensal Green cemetery, London, England (10 October 1902).
Occupationphysical chemist
Research fieldOptics
Spectroscopy
Physical chemistry
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
Privately educated; University College, London (1844); PhD (Giessen) (1847)
Career:
Returned to London from Giessen, Hesse, Germany (1848); lecturer on Chemistry, St Thomas's Hospital (1850-1852); sat on the royal commission which enquired into lighthouses, buoys, and beacons (1859-1862); sat on the War Office committee investigating questions pertaining to gun cotton (1864); unsuccessfully contested the borough of York (1868); Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution (1874-1877); worked with the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Christian Evidence Society (CES); suffered a cardiac seizure following a CES meeting, and was found dead in his study (1902).
Memberships:
FCS (President 1877-1879)
Physical Society (President 1874-1876)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1853
Age at election26
ProposerWilliam Brockendon
Charles Wheatstone
Gideon Algernon Mantell
John Simon
Lyon Playfair
William Thomas Brande
William Allen Miller
Charles Daubeny
Warren De la Rue
Augustus Wilhelm von Hoffman
Henry Bence Jones
Michael Faraday
Robert Porrett
Henry Beaumont Leeson
Thomas Graham
John Phillips
John Barlow
George Owen Rees
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Davy Medal 1897
RelationshipsParents: John Gladstone, wholesale draper, of Cheapside, and Alison Hall.
Spouse: 1) (1852) Jane May (d. 1864), only child of Charles Tilt, the publisher Jane May (d. 1864), only child of Charles Tilt, the publisher; 2) (1869) Margaret (d. 1870), daughter of David King, and niece of William Thomson (FRS 1851), Baron Kelvin.
Children: One son and six daughters from first marriage; One daughter, Margaret Ethel MacDonald (1870–1911), a socialist and suffragist.
Son-in-law: James Ramsay Macdonald (FRS 1930).
PublishedWorksRCN 8653
OtherInfoUndertook pioneering research in optics and spectroscopy.
Published on bromination of rubber.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 188-192 signed by T E T
References:
Vanity Fair 14 November 1891
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/15525481
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Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/Maull/001663Gladstone, John Hallnd
MS/743/1/93Letter from Karl Adolph Wurtz, Paris, to [John Hall Glastone]29 October 1878
MS/743/1/139Letter from Lyon Playfair, Atlantis Cottage, Nahant, to [John Hall] Gladstone13 September 1892
MS/743/1/100Letter from John Lubbock, High Elms, Hayes, Kent, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 November 1881
MS/743/1/175Letter from Thomas Graham, 4 Gordon Square, to John Hall Gladstone2 November [no year]
MS/743/1/78Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Cambridge, to John Hall Gladstone6 April 1872
MS/743/1/108Letter from James Augustus Henry Murray, Mill Hill, Middlesex, to [John Hall] Gladstone15 January 1884 [?]
MS/743/1/138Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 August 1892
MS/743/1/2Testimonial by William Thomas Brande, Royal Mint on behalf of John Hall Gladstone 24 April 1849
MS/743/1/145Letter from James Emerson Reynolds, Trinity College, Dublin, to [John Hall] Gladstone27 April 1893
MS/743/1/49Letter from David Brewster, Allerly by Melrose, to [John Hall] Gladstone3 October 1860
MS/743/1/98Letter from Philip Henry Gosse, Sandhurst, Torquay, to [John Hall Gladstone]14 November 1881
MS/743/1/174Testimonial by Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas [on behalf of John Hall Gladstone]nd
IM/Maull/001665Gladstone, John Hall1850s
MS/743/1/3Testimonial by Justus von Liebig, Giessen, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone 24 April 1849
VF/13Portrait of John Hall Gladstone by Sir Leslie Ward14 November 1891
MS/743/1Correspondence of John Hall Gladstone1846-1918
MS/743/1/16Testimonial by Justus von Liebig, Munich, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone5 July 1855
NLB/23/2/10Copy letter from Sir Michael Foster, to Dr [John Hall] Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society28 January 1901
NLB/11/135Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society27 April 1895
NLB/13/500Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward Frankland, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society30 September 1896
NLB/13/307Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Edward Frankland, Fellow of the Royal Society23 July 1896
NLB/13/452Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr Edward Frankland, Foreign Secretary, Royal Society14 September 1896
MS/743/1/39Letter from Thomas Graham, Royal Mint, to John Hall Gladstone7 January 1860
NLB/15/608Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1897
NLB/19/556Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society1 November 1899
NLB/19/493Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr E W Marchant, Blythswood Laboratory, Renfrew, N.B.14 October 1899
NLB/19/622Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to the Secretary, the Joint Scholarships Board, 27 Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. 10 November 1899
NLB/21/2Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook and Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellows of the Royal Society14 July 1900
NLB/21/3Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office,S.W.14 July 1900
NLB/21/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Francis Fitzgerald, Fellow of the Royal Society, The University of London, South Kensington, S.W.16 July 1900
NLB/21/4Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Joseph John Thomson, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1900
NLB/23/2/142Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society26 November 1901
NLB/23/1/477Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society 18 November 1901
MS/743/1/178Letter from John D Holmes, 14 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, to John Hall Gladstone27 July [no year]
MS/743/1/151Letter from William Fletcher Barrett, 6 De Vesci Terrace, Kingstown, Co Dublin, to [John Hall] Gladstone28 September 1893
MS/743/1/126Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 May 1890
RR/3/13Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the formation and some of the properties of cyanide' by Reverend John Barlow5 July 1855
RR/3/86Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On the influence of temperature on the refraction of light' by John Hall Gladstone and T P Dale30 August 1858
RR/7/57Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Researches on vanadium - Part III' by Henry Enfield Roscoe18 May 1870
RR/7/97Referee's report by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, on a paper 'On a law in chemical dynamics' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe25 October 1871
RR/3/88Referee's report by Baden Powell on a paper, 'On the influence of temperature on the refraction of light' by John Hall Gladstone and T P Dale18 October 1858
RR/6/296Second referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On supersaturated saline solutions' by Charles Tomlinson16 December 1868
RR/7/77Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On supersaturated saline solutions - Part II' by Charles Tomlinson1 September 1870
RR/7/373Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the action of heat on the absorption-spectra an chemical constitution of saline solutions' by Walter Noel Hartley9 December 1875
MS/743/1/54Letter from James Glaisher, Blackheath, to [John Hall] Gladstone4 October 1862
RR/14/114Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'The adoption of Rontgen rays by aqueous solutions of metallic salts' by Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood and E W Marchant4 April 1899
RR/8/176Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Researches on explosives. No. II.—Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel15 August 1879
RR/6/133Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Researches on the blood.—On the action of nitrites on blood' by Arthur Gamgee11 June 1868
RR/7/332Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Researches on explosives - Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel18 June 1874
RR/9/275Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of the alkaloids' by Walter Noel Hartley6 April 1885
MS/743/1/119Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone1 November 1889
MS/743/1/105Letter from George Douglas Campbell, Duke of Argyll, to [John Hall] Gladstone14 July 1883
MS/743/1/143Letter from Charles William Wilson, Ordnance House, Southampton, to [John Hall] Gladstone9 February 1893
MS/743/1/15Testimonial by Justus von Liebig, Munich, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone5 July 1855
RR/3/87Note by William Allan Miller on a paper, 'On the influence of temperature on the refraction of light' by John Hall Gladstone and T P Dale1858
MS/743/1/110Letter from James Paget, 1 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone7 June 1886
MS/743/1/133Letter from William Matthew Flinder Petrie, 8 Crescent Road, Bromley, Kent, to [John Hall] Gladstone14 October 1891
MM/21/45Letter from John Hall Gladstone27 October 1873
MS/743/1/92Letter from Joseph Dalton Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew, to [John Hall] Gladstone9 October 1878
RR/6/134Referee's report by William Hallowes Miller, on a paper 'On the refraction-equivalents of the elements' by John Hall Gladstone26 October 1869
MS/743/1/26Testimonial by Benjamin Collins Brodie on behalf of John Hall Gladstone19 July 1857
MS/743/1/149Letter from Frederick Jones Bliss, Palestine Exploration Fund, 24 Hanover Square, London, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 July 1893
MS/743/1/156Letter from John Evans, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, to [John Hall] Gladstone9 February 1898
MS/743/1/184Letter from Joseph John Tylor, Fir Toll, Mayfield, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 May [no year]
MS/743/1/66Report of the Committee on Fog Signals by Thomas Romney RobinsonAugust 1864
MS/743/1/7Letter from Thomas Graham, 4 Gordon Square, to John Hall Gladstone21 April 1853
NLB/13/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1896
NLB/15/436Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Raphael Meldola, Fellow of the Royal Society4 October 1897
RR/8/160Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the microrheometer' by James Ballantyne Hannay7 May 1879
IM/001662Gladstone, John Hall1999
RR/5/79Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'Researches on the refraction, dispersion, and sensitiveness of liquids' by John Hall Gladstone and T P Dale29 April 1863
RR/7/282Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Contributions to the history of explosive agents - Second memoir' by Frederick Augustus Abel30 March 1874
IM/001664Gladstone, John Hallnd
RR/7/96Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On a law in chemical dynamics' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe9 September 1871
PT/50/8Paper, 'On circumstances modifying the action of chemical affinity' by J H [John Hall] Gladstone[1855]
PT/60/9Paper, 'On the lines of the solar spectrum' by Sir David Brewster and J H [John Hall] Gladstone[1860]
RR/2/73Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'On circumstances modifying the action of chemical affinity' by John Hall Gladstone28 March 1855
RR/4/20Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On the lines of the solar spectrum' by David Brewster and John Hall Gladstone30 April 1860
PT/60/9/1Manuscript, 'On the lines of the solar spectrum' by Sir David Brewster and J H [John Hall] Gladstone[1860]
PT/60/9/2Plate, lines of solar spectrum by unknown artist[1860]
PT/68/14Paper, 'Researches on the refraction, dispersion, and sensitiveness of liquids' by J H [John Hall] Gladstone and Rev T P [Thomas Pelham?] Dale[1863]
RR/6/6Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Contributions to the history of explosive agents' by Frederick Augustus Abel2 August 1869
RR/6/255Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Researches on vanadium' by Henry Enfield Roscoe16 January 1868
MS/743/1/134Letter from Ludwig Mond, The Poplars, 20 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 May 1892
MS/743/1/169Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College, Gower Street, London, to [John Hall Gladstone?]23 August [post-1905]
MS/743/1/146Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 32 Torrington Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone7 June 1893
MS/743/1/137Letter from Percy Edward Newberry, 5 Callow Street, Chelsea, to [John Hall] Gladstone18 June 1892
RR/6/139Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the laws of connexion between the conditions of a chemical change and its amount' by Augustus George Vernon Harcourt and William Esson31 January 1866
MS/743/1/158Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, The Royal Mint, to [John Hall] Gladstone11 February 1898
MS/743/1/50Letter from David Brewster, Duncliffe, Edinburgh to [John Hall] Gladstone15 March 1861
MC/11/285Letter from J H [John Hall] Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square, to [John] Evans, [Treasuer of the Royal Society]13 December 1878
AP/40/5Paper, 'On the chemical action of water on soluble salts' by John Hall Gladstone1857
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/13Letter from J H [John Hall] Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square, to Wm [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society3 February 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MS/743/1/53Letter from David Brewster, Allerly, Melrose, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 May 1862
MS/743/1/144Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, 55 Granville Park, Lewisham, London, to [John Hall] Gladstone 15 February 1893
RR/5/279Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'Researches on isomeric alkaloids' by Charles Greville Hanson Williams21 July 1864
MS/743/1/79Letter from William Fletcher Barrett, Isleworth, to [John Hall] Gladstone18 June 1872
RR/6/293Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On supersaturated saline solutions' by Charles Tomlinson3 August 1868
AP/53/2Unpublished paper, 'On a law in chemical dynamics' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1871
AP/53/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On a law in chemical dynamics' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1871
AP/53/2/2Unpublished figures, experimental process by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1871
RR/7/140Letter from John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On supersaturated saline solutions - Part II' by Charles Tomlinson15 February 1871
MS/743/1/154Letter from James Dewar, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [John Hall] Gladstone26 June 1897
MS/743/1/103Letter from William Henry Preece, Post Office, London, to [John Hall Gladstone]12 October 1882
RR/9/273Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'The absorption spectra of the alkaloids' by Walter Noel Hartley17 February 1885
PP/4/21/1Manuscript, 'On the electrolysis of dilute sulphuric acid and other hydrated salts' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1883
PP/4/21Paper, 'On the electrolysis of dilute sulphuric acid and other hydrated salts' by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1883
PP/4/21/2Diagram, experimental equipment by John Hall Gladstone and Alfred Tribe1883
PP/10/51Paper, 'Dispersion equivalents. Part I' by J H [John Hall] Gladstone1887
RR/6/135Referee's report by George Gabriel Stokes, on a paper 'On the refraction-equivalents of the elements' by John Hall Gladstone15 December 1869
RR/14/179Referee's report by John Hall Gladstone, on a paper 'On the action of heat on the absorption-spectra an chemical constitution of saline substances' by Walter Noel Hartley2 November 1899
PP/5/24Paper, 'On the experimental determination of the index of refraction of liquefied gases' by L Bleekrode1884
MS/743/1/32Letter from David Brewster, St Leonard's College, St Andrews, to [John Hall] Gladstone 1 January 1859
MS/743/1/69Letter from Justus von Liebig to John Hall Gladstone, London1 July 1870
MS/743/1/73Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to [John Hall] Gladstonend
MS/743/1/75Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, The Atheneum, to John Hall Gladstone15 June 1871
MC/17/70Letter from [John Hall] Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square, to Professor [Arthur William] Rücker, The Royal Society5 November 1897
NLB/15/612Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Horace A D Seymour, Royal Mint4 November 1897
MS/743/1/155Letter from Frederick Joseph Bramwell, 5 Great George Street, Westminster, to John Hall Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square 19 October 1897
MS/743/1/5Testimonial by Henry Beaumont Leeson, St Thomas's Hospital, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone4 February 1851
NLB/19/597Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Dr John Hall Gladstone, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1899
MC/17/291Letter from [John Hall] Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square, to Professor [Arthur William] Rücker, [Secretary of The Royal Society]9 November 1899
MS/743/1/136Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 8 Crescent Road, Bromley, Kent17 June 1892
AP/61/15Unpublished paper, 'Experimental researches into electric distribution' by Alfred Tribe1881
AP/61/15/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Experimental researches into electric distribution' by Alfred Tribe1881
MS/743/1/87Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Athenaeum Club and Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone26-29 November 1875
MS/743/1/162Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, 55 Granville Park, Lewisham, London, to [John Hall] Gladstone13 July 1900
MS/743/1/99Letter from Karl Adolph Wurtz, Marie VIIe Arrondissement, Cabinet du Maire, to [John Hall Gladstone]17 November 1881
MS/743/1/120Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Medinet el Fayum, Egypt, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 November 1889
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MS/743/1/83Letter from William Spottiswoode, Coombe Bank, Sevenoaks, to [John Hall] Gladstone20 October 1874
MS/743/1/51Letter from Henry Enfield Roscoe, Owen's College, Manchester, to John Hall Gladstone10 May 1861
MS/743/1/101Letter from Francis Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, to [John Hall] Gladstone 7 December 1881
MS/743/1/109Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone1 March 1886
MS/743/1/46Letter from David Brewster, View Bank, Trinity, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 May 1860
MS/743/1/86Letter from Joseph Dalton Hooker, Royal Gardens, Kew, to [John Hall] Gladstone15 October 1875
MS/743/1/182Letter from John Tyndall, Queenwood, to [John Hall] GladstoneNo date
MS/743/1/61Letter from John Hall Gladstone, Gore House, Redhill, to Mr Dale28 July 1863
MS/743/1/97Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, Leeds, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 February 1881
MS/743/1/77Letter from Arthur Herbert Church, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 March 1872
MS/743/1/172Testimonial by Benjamin Collins Brodie, 13 Albert Road, Regent's Park, on behalf of [John Hall] Gladstone18 June [1855?]
MS/743/1/13Testimonial by Henry Bence Jones, 31 Lower Brook Street, on behalf of [John Hall] Gladstone20 June 1855
MS/743/1/112Letter from William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, Kew, to [John Hall] Gladstone26 February 1887
MS/743/1/60Letter from Frederick Augustus Abel, Chemical Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to [John Hall] Gladstone20 June 1863
MS/743/1/177Letter from John D Holmes, 5 Albert Terrace, Notting Hill, Bayswater, to John Hall Gladstone24 July [no year]
MS/743/1/114Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Bromley, Kent, to [John Hall Gladstone]12 July 1889
MC/23/275Letter from [Margaret Ethel] MacDonald, 3 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, W. C, to Dr [Joseph] Larmor, [Royal Society]11 February 1908
MS/743/1/161Letter from William Chandler Robert-Austen, The Royal Mint, to [John Hall] Gladstone 16 February 1900
MS/743/1/117Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 July 1889
MS/743/1/89Letter from John Tyndall, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [John Hall] Gladstone23 June 1876
MS/743/1/12Testimonial by George Wilson, Analytical Laboratory, Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone7 June 1855
MS/743/1/10Letter from George Wilson, Elm Cottage, Edinburgh, to [John Hall Gladstone] 31 May 1855
MS/743/1/8Letter from George Wilson, Elm Cottage, Edinburgh, to 'Dear King John' [John Hall Gladstone]12 March 1855
MS/743/1/14Testimonial by Thomas Anderson, University of Glasgow, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone30 June 1855
MS/743/1/4Letter from Henry Beaumont Leeson, Bonchurch, to Dr [John Hall] Gladstone25 December 1850
MS/743/1/142Letter from James Dewar, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [John Hall] Gladstone21 January 1893
MS/743/1/65Letter from Thomas Graham, 4 Gordon Square, to John Hall Gladstone11 February 1864
MS/743/1/96Letter from Alexander William Williamson, 15 Primrose Hill Road, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 November 1880
MS/743/1/27Testimonial by George Wilson, University of Edinburgh, on behalf of John Hall GladstoneJuly 1857
MS/743/1/28Letter from George Wilson, Sunny Law House, Bridge of Allan, to John [Hall Gladstone]27 April 1858
MS/743/1/29Letter from George Wilson, Industrial Museum of Scotland, to John [Hall Gladstone]18 May 1858
MS/743/1/41Letter from David Brewster, View Bank, Trinity, Edinburgh, to [John Hall] Gladstone7 March 1860
MS/743/1/64Letter from David Brewster, 24 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, to [John Hall] Gladstone27 January 1864
MS/743/1/24Testimonial by Augustus Wilhelm von Hofmann, Royal College of Chemistry, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone15 July 1857 [?]
MS/743/1/62Letter from Frederick Augustus Abel, Council of Military Education, 13 Great George Street, to John Hall Gladstone29 July 1863
MS/743/1/74Letter from James Timmins Chance, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, to [John Hall] Gladstone24 March 1871
MS/743/2Letters of Thomas Pelham Dale to John Hall Gladstone1861-1891
MS/743/1/85Letter from Henry Watts, 151 King Henry's Road, South Hampstead, to [John Hall] Gladstone7 July 1875
MS/743/1/84Letter from William Spottiswoode, 50 Grosvenor Place, to [John Hall] Gladstone1 February 1875
MS/743/1/125Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to [John Hall] Gladstone15 April 1890
MS/743/1/124Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to [John Hall] Gladstone13 March 1890
MS/743/1/148Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 32 Torrington Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 July 1893
MS/743/1/153Letter from Arthur John Evans, Ashmolean Museum, to [John Hall Gladstone]11 July 1896
MS/743/1/35Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 July 1859
MS/743/1/123Letter fromThomas George Bonney, 23 Denning Road, Hampstead, to [John Hall] Gladstone13 February 1890
MS/743/1/152Letter from Henry Enfield Roscoe, 10 Bramhan Gardens, Wetherby Road, to John Hall Gladstone 21 March 1895
MS/743/1/107Letter from Henry Enfield Roscoe, Manchester, to [John Hall] Gladstone4 December 1883
MS/743/1/165Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Morland, Chislett Road, West Hampstead, to Miss Gladstone26 October [1908]
MS/743/1/102Letter from Edward Frankland, Board Room, Crystal Palace, to [John Hall] Gladstone27 May 1882
MS/743/1/157Letter from Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum, to [John Hall] Gladstone10 February 1898
MS/743/1/121Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to [John Hall] Gladstone9 January 1890
MS/743/1/171Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 8 Well Road, Hampstead, to Miss Gladstone23 April 1918
MS/743/1/160Letter from William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, Fleming's Hotel, Half Moon Street, to [John Hall] Gladstone8 November 1899
MS/743/1/183Letter from John Tyndall, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to [John Hall] Gladstone18 November [no year]
MS/743/1/127Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Bromley, Kent, to [John Hall] Gladstone22 October 1890
MS/743/1/22Testimonial by Richard Dugard Grainger, 4 Old Palace Yard, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone15 July 1857
MS/743/1/55Letter from James Nasmyth, Penshurst, Kent, to John Hall Gladstone27 January 1863
MS/743/1/11Testimonial by Thomas Andrews, Queen's College, Belfast, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone6 June 1855
MS/743/1/48Letter from David Brewster, St Andrews, to [John Hall] Gladstone 17 August 1860
MS/743/1/21Testimonial by Frederick le Gros Clark, 24 Spring Gardens, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone 15 July 1857
MS/743/1/67Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to [John Hall] Gladstone6 June 1867
MS/743/1/91Letter from Philip Henry Gosse, Sandhurst, St Marychurch3 October 1877
MS/743/1/159Letter from John Lubbock, 2 St James' Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone23 July 1898
MS/743/1/19Testimonial by Henry Bence Jones, 31 Brook Street, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone 9 July 1857
MS/743/1/170Letter from William Ramsay, 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, to Miss Gladstone25 February 1912
MS/743/1/118Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 October 1889
MS/743/1/147Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 32 Torrington Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone26 June 1893
MS/743/1/167Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Morland, Chislett Road, West Hampstead, to Miss Gladstone7 November 1908
MS/743/1/95Letter from William Spottiswoode, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [John Hall] Gladstone 1 November 1878
MS/743/1/23Testimonial by Alexander William Williamson, University College London, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone15 July 1857
MS/743/1/90Letter from Alexander Stewart Herschel, College of Science, Newcastle upon Tyne, to [John Hall] Gladstone21 September 1876
MS/743/1/25Testimonial by Henry Beaumont Leeson on behalf of John Hall Gladstone16 July 1857
MS/743/1/63Letter from John Hall Gladstone, Gore House, Redhill, to Mr Dale8 August 1863
MS/743/1/6Letter from John Tyndall, Queenwood, to Dr [John Hall] Gladstone17 August 1851
MS/743/1/113Letter from John Bennet Lawes, Rothamsted, St Albans, to [John Hall] Gladstone7 February 1888
MS/743/1/20Testimonial by William Thomas Brande, Royal Mint on behalf of John Hall Gladstone14 July 1857
MS/743/1/57Letter from Robert Fitzroy, Meteorological Office, to [John Hall] Gladstone10 March 1863
MS/743/1/122Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Chilworth, to [John Hall] Gladstone12 January 1890
MS/743/1/150Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, The Royal Mint, 3 August 1983, to [John Hall] Gladstone3 August 1893
MS/743/1/132Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 8 Crescent Road, Bromley, Kent, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 September 1891
MS/743/1/80Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone26 July 1872
MS/743/1/94Testimonial by Karl Adolph Wurtz, Faculte de Medecine de Paris, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone17 July 1857
MS/743/1/131Letter from Arthur John Evans, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to [John Hall Gladstone]31 July 1891
MS/743/1/44Letter from John Hall Gladstone, 28 Leinster Gardens, London, to Sir David Brewster29 March 1860
MS/743/1/33Letter from David Brewster, St Leonard's College, to [John Hall] Gladstone21 February 1859
MS/743/1/38Letter from David Brewster, St Andrews, to [John Hall] Gladstone15 December 1859
MS/743/1/129Letter from William Henry Dallinger, Ingleside, Lee, to John Hall Gladstone7 July 1891
MS/743/1/76Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to John Hall Gladstone16 June 1871
MS/743/1/40Letter from David Brewster, St Andrews, to [John Hall] Gladstone30 January 1860
MS/743/1/130Letter from William Henry Dallinger, Ingleside, Lee, to John Hall Gladstone23 July 1891
MS/743/1/34Letter from Baden Powell, 6 Stanhope Street, Hyde Park Gardens, to John Hall Gladstone11 June 1859
MS/743/1/115Letter from William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Bromley, Kent, to [Mr Offord]12 July 1889
MS/743/1/88Letter from Frederick Augustus Abel to [John Hall] Gladstone 4 April 1876
MS/743/1/168Letter from William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 15 Eaton Place to [Silvanus Phillips] Thompson11 July 1906
MS/743/1/128Letter from William Henry Dallinger, Ingleside, Lee, to [John Hall] Gladstone30 June 1891
MS/743Papers of John Hall Gladstone1846-1918
MS/743/1/179Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 March [1864?]
MS/743/1/104Letter from Oliver Joseph Lodge, 26 Waverley Road, Sefton Park, Liverpool, to [John Hall] Gladstone3 January 1883
MS/743/1/18Letter from Thomas Graham to John Hall Gladstone18 December 1856
MS/743/1/42Draft letter from John Hall Gladstone, 28 Leinster Gardens, London, to Sir David Brewster9 March 1860
MS/743/1/176Letter from William Vernon Harcourt, Nuneham Park, Abingdon, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 November [no year]
MS/743/1/140Letter from Ludwig Mond, Winnington Hall, Northwich, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 October 1892
MS/743/1/72Letter from William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, to [John Hall] Gladstone[December 1870]
MS/743/1/45Letter from David Brewster, View Bank, Trinity, Edinburgh, to [John Hall] Gladstone30 March 1860
MS/743/1/52Letter from David Brewster, Allerly, Melrose, to [John Hall] Gladstone5 June 1861
MS/743/1/164Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Morland, Chislett Road, West Hampstead, to Miss Gladstone22 June 1901
MS/743/1/141Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe, 61 Ladbroke Grove, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 January 1893
MS/743/1/166Letter from Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Morland, Chislett Road, West Hampstead, to Miss Gladstone1 November 1908
MS/743/1/59Letter from David Brewster, Allerly, Melrose, to [John Hall] Gladstone25 April 1863
MS/743/1/68Letter from William Hallowes Miller, 7 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, to [John Hall] Gladstone17 July 1867
MS/743/1/163Letter from Henry Edward Armstrong, 55 Granville Park, Lewisham, London, to [John Hall] Gladstone10 June 1901
MS/743/1/135Letter from James Emerson Reynolds, Trinity College, Dublin, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 June 1892
MS/743/1/30Letter from Robert Fitzroy, Board of Trade (and Admiralty) Meteorological Department, to John Hall Gladstone13 November 1858
MS/743/1/31Letter from Robert Fitzroy, 2 Parliament Square, to [John Hall] Gladstone19 November 1858
MS/743/1/37Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to John Hall Gladstone21 November 1859
MS/743/1/81Letter from Alexander Stewart Herschel, 16 Saville Row, Newcastle on Tyne, to [John Hall] Gladstone 10 February 1873
MS/743/1/17Letter from George Wilson, Elm Cottage, Melrose, to John [Hall Gladstone] 3 September 1856
MS/743/1/116Letter from William Henry Perkin, The Chestnuts, Sudbury, Harrow, to [John Hall] Gladstone13 July 1889
EC/1853/07Gladstone, John Hall: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/743/1/9Testimonial by William Allen Miller, King's College, London, on behalf of John Hall Gladstone30 May 1855
MS/743/1/70Letter from Frederick Augustus Abel, Woolwich, to John Hall Gladstone19 July 1870
MS/743/1/56Letter from Frederick Augustus Abel, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to John Hall Gladstone2 February 1863
MS/743/1/47Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to John Hall Gladstone23 May 1860
MS/743/1/1Letter from Thomas Graham, University College, to John Gladstone, Stockwell Lodge2 January 1846
MS/373/1/115Testimonial by J H [John Hall] Gladstone, Atheneum Club, Pall Mall, supporting Thomas Edward Thorpe 7 April 1874
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