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Authorised form of nameDuppa; Baldwin Francis (1828 - 1872)
Dates1828 - 1872
Place of birthRouen, France
Date of birth18 February 1828
Place of deathBudleigh Salterton, Devon
Date of death10 November 1872
ActivityEducation:
Hofwyl, near Berne; Cambridge (no degree); Royal College of Chemistry (1855)
Career:
Lived in Italy (for 3 years); returned to England and took up chemistry (1854); set up a chemical laboratory at Hollingbourne House, Maridstone, where he collaborated with W H Perkin (FRS 1866); worked with Edward Frankland (FRS 1853) at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1860); went to Italy and Algeria for his health (for 2 years); worked with Frankland at the Royal College of Chemistry (1867); died of consumption
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1867
RelationshipsSon of Baldwin Francis Duppa, barrister; married (1869) Adeline Frances Mary Dart, daughter of J H Dart, barrister
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1872-1873 vol 21 pp vi-ix
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/170263162
CodeNA6283
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EC/1867/04Duppa, Baldwin Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/6/130Referee's report by William Allen Miller, on a paper 'Researches on acids of the lactic series.—No. 1. Synthesis of acids of the lactic series' by Edward Frankland and Baldwin Francis Duppa19 April 1866
RR/6/129Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Researches on acids of the lactic series.—No. 1. Synthesis of acids of the lactic series' by Edward Frankland and Baldwin Francis Duppa19 March 1866
RR/6/128Referee's report by William Odling, on a paper 'Synthetical Researches on ethers.— No. 1. Synthesis of ethers from acetic ether' by Edward Frankland and Baldwin Francis Duppa18 January 1866
MC/8/90Letter from B F [Baldwin Francis] Duppa, Hallingbourne House, near Maidstone, to W [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]9 October 1867
MC/8/121Letter from Baldwin Francis Duppa, 6 Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society and to the Council12 December 1867
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
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