| Authorised form of name | Forster; Sir; Martin Onslow (1872 - 1945); chemist |
| Dates | 1872 - 1945 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lambeth, London, England |
| Date of birth | 08 November 1872 |
| Place of death | Mysore, Karnataka, India, Asia |
| Date of death | 24 May 1945 |
| Occupation | chemist |
| Research field | Organic chemistry |
| Chemistry |
| Activity | Education:
Dane Hill House, Margate; Finsbury Technical College (1888); DSc (Lond); PhD (Wurtzburg)
Career:
Research assistant to William Augustus Tilden (FRS 1880) at Mason College, Birmingham (c. 1892); research student to the laboratory of Henry Edward Armstrong (FRS 1876) at the Central Technical College, South Kensington (1894); demonstrator in chemistry at the Royal College of Science (1895); assistant professor of chemistry (1902-1913); consultant to dye-using industries (1914); chairman of the technical committee of British Dyes Ltd (1915) and then director (1916); first director of the Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry (1918); continued experimental work in the Davy–Faraday Laboratory, Albemarle Street; went to India on the recommendation of Sir W.J Pope, director of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1922); retired (1933) and settled in Mysore, where he also died.
Memberships:
Chemical Society (Council 1901-4; Honorary Secretary 1904-10; Vice-President 1910-13; Treasurer 1915-22)
Royal Institute of Chemistry
Honours:
Kt 1933
Awards/Medals:
Longstaff medal 1915 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/05/1905 |
| Age at election | 33 |
| Proposer | William Augustus Tilden; Raphael Meldola; Henry Edward Armstrong; Edward Divers; William Palmer Wynne; William Henry Perkin; William Henry Perkin, jr; Alexander Scott; James Emerson Reynolds; Percy Faraday Frankland; Silvanus Phillips Thompson |
| Relationships | Parents: Martin Forster (d. 1908), a clerk in the Bank of England, and Ann Hope Limby (d. 1916).
Spouse:
1) Madeleine, daughter of William Henry Nichols, manufacturing chemist, of New York (1 January 1907), they divorced in 1916 2) Elena Josefina (d. 1941), daughter of William Hall Haynes of Cadiz, and widow of Horace P. Parodi, a barrister, of Gibraltar (1925). |
| Published works | RCN 50500 |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 243-261, plate, by E F Armstrong and J L Simonsen |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/77073553 |
| Royal Society code | NA7523 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1905/06 | Forster, Sir Martin Onslow: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| NLB/32/62 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | [20 December 1905] |
| NLB/35/310 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 14 May 1907 |
| NLB/62/923 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 8 June 1922 |
| NLB/51/599 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Martin Onslow Foster FRS | 4 May 1915 |
| NLB/52/527 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Martin Onslow Forster, FRS | 7 January 1916 |
| NLB/56/72 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 14 November 1918 |
| NLB/58/213 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 27 March 1920 |
| NLB/58/217 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 29 March 1920 |
| NLB/55/253 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 05 February 1918 |
| NLB/59/615 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 23 October 1920 |
| NLB/59/430 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS; Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Salters' Hall, E.C.4. | 2 October 1920 |
| NLB/57/167 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr MO [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 1 August 1919 |
| NLB/55/655 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 11 July 1918 |
| NLB/62/75 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 25 November 1921 |
| NLB/62/800 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 9 May 1922 |
| NLB/70/409 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 25 March 1927 |
| NLB/72/437 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS | 22 October 1929 |
| IM/001500 | Forster, Martin Onslow | 1924 |
| NLB/56/398 | Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS | 29 January 1919 |
| NLB/57 | New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration | 27 June 1919-27 February 1920 |
| 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 |
| NLB/37/690 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr M [Martin] O [Onslow] Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society | 1 May 1908 |
| MC/23/92 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, to the Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House | 20 March 1908 |
| MC/23 | Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1908 |
| MC/33/26 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, The Chemical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.1, to The Secretary, Royal Society | 3 May 1918 |
| MC/33/58 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to [Robert] Harrion, [Royal Society] | 12 July 1918 |
| MC/33/59 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to The Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1. | 15 August 1918 |
| MC/33/57 | Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to The Secretaries, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1. | 7 June 1918 |