Person Forster; Sir; Martin Onslow (1872 - 1945); chemist Forster Martin Onslow Sir chemist 1872 - 1945 British Male Lambeth, London, England 08 November 1872 18721108 Mysore, Karnataka, India, Asia 24 May 1945 19450524

chemist Organic chemistry Chemistry 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 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). Fellow 11/05/1905 33 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 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.1945.0015 RCN 50500 8 Nov 1872 - 24 May 1945 The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 29/05/2024 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA7523 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 08/09/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/77073553 483b8c6b-12c5-491a-932e-6b66781fee82