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Authorised form of nameFreeth; Francis Arthur (1884 - 1970)
Dates1884 - 1970
Place of birthBirkenhead
Date of birth02 January 1884
Place of deathChurch Crookham, Hampshire
Date of death15/07/1970
OccupationIndustrial chemist
ActivityEducation:
Audlem Grammar School, Liverpool University 1902 -1905; M.Sc 1906; PhD from Leiden 1924; DSc from Liverpool 1924;
Career:
Analyst, Hignett's tobacco factory; Chief Chemist and Director of Research, Messrs Brunner, Mond & Co Ltd; ICI (1944-1952)
Honours:
OBE 1918
Memberships:
FIC
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/05/1925
RelationshipsMarried 1910 Ethel Elizabeth Warbrick of Silecroft, Northumberland. 1 son, 2 daughters
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 105-118, plate, by Sir Peter Allen
CodeNA7279
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1925/04Freeth, Francis Arthur: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/759Biographical papers of Francis Arthur Freethc1884 - 1970
MM/17/46Letter from WLS Churchill to FA FreethMay 1918
IM/GA/WS/1696/DFreeth, Francis Arthur1946
IM/GA/WS/1696Freeth, Francis Arthur1946
NLB/70/345Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Freeth, FRS10 March 1927
RR/27/55Referee's report by Thomas Martin Lowry, on a paper 'The system: Na2O—CO2—NaCl—H2O, considered as two four- component systems' by Francis Arthur FreethFebruary 1922
RR/27/56Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The system: Na2O—CO2—NaCl—H2O, considered as two four- component systems' by Francis Arthur FreethMarch 1922
RR/41/97Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'Some properties of methane and methane-hydrogen' by Francis Arthur Freeth and T T H Verschoyle15 July 1930
RR/51/10Referee's report by Francis Arthur Freeth, on a paper 'Investigations on a portion of the quaternary system CaO—-A12O3-SiO2-Fe2-O3: The quaternary system CaO—2CaO . SiO2—' by F M Lea and T W Parker[May 1934]
RR/66/266Referee's report by Francis Arthur Freeth, on a paper 'Two-phase equilibrium in binary and ternary systems. I. The system methane-ethane' by M Ruhemann25 February 1939
NLB/68/105Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Alexander] Freeth, FRS11 May 1925
RR/67/218Referee's report by Francis Arthur Freeth, on a paper 'Two-phase equilibrium in binary and ternary systems II. The system methane-ethylene III. The system methane-ethane-ethylene' by M Guter, Dudley Maurice Newitt and M Ruhemann8 June 1940
RR/70/61Referee's report by Francis Arthur Freeth, 'Phase equilibria for a complex mixture—coal gas—at low temperatures and high pressures' by H Chow13 November 1940
NLB/69/212Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Freeth, FRS2 February 1926
NLB/68/584Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Freeth, FRS5 September 1925
NLB/68/186Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Mr Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, Amen House, Warwick Square, E.C.4.27 May 1925
NLB/68/575Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Captain [Francis Arthur] Freeth2 September 1925
NLB/68/571Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Freeth; Heather Croft, Hartford, Cheshire12 August 1925
NLB/68/508Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [John Job] Manley Esq.; Magdalen College, Oxford20 July 1925
NLB/69/207Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Francis Arthur] Freeth, FRS29 January 1926
NLB/68/447Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS13 July 1925
NLB/68/594Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Captain [Francis Arthur] Freeth; Heather Croft, Hartford, Cheshire11 September 1925
NLB/71/687Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [Francis Arthur] Freeth, O.B.E., FRS3 October 1928
NLB/71/709Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Major [Francis Arthur] Freeth, FRS10 October 1928
NLB/72/399Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Francis Arthur] Freeth, OBE, FRS1 October 1929
IM/001558Freeth, Francis Arthurnd
NLB/67/710Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to unknown correspondent19 February 1925
NLB/71/4Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof [Frederick George] Donnan, C.B.E., FRS1 December 1927
IM/GA/WS/1696/AFreeth, Francis Arthur1946
NLB/69/480Copy letter from Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederick] Soddy, FRS29 April 1926
RR/68/108Referee's report by Francis Arthur Freeth, on a paper 'Two-phase equilibrium in binary and ternary systems IV. The system ethane-propylene' by Hui Lu, Dudley Maurice Newitt and M Ruhemann29 April 1941
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