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Authorised form of nameForster; Sir; Martin Onslow (1872 - 1945); chemist
Dates1872 - 1945
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLambeth, London, England
Date of birth08 November 1872
Place of deathMysore, Karnataka, India, Asia
Date of death24 May 1945
Occupationchemist
Research fieldOrganic chemistry
Chemistry
ActivityEducation:
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 categoryFellow
Date of election11/05/1905
Age at election33
ProposerWilliam 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
RelationshipsParents: 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).
PublishedWorksRCN 50500
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
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 Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/77073553
CodeNA7523
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1905/06Forster, Sir Martin Onslow: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/32/62Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons[20 December 1905]
NLB/35/310Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 May 1907
NLB/62/923Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS8 June 1922
NLB/51/599Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Dr Martin Onslow Foster FRS4 May 1915
NLB/52/527Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. Martin Onslow Forster, FRS7 January 1916
NLB/56/72Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS14 November 1918
NLB/58/213Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS27 March 1920
NLB/58/217Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS29 March 1920
NLB/55/253Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS05 February 1918
NLB/59/615Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS23 October 1920
NLB/59/430Copy 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/57/167Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr MO [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS1 August 1919
NLB/55/655Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS11 July 1918
NLB/62/75Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS25 November 1921
NLB/62/800Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS9 May 1922
NLB/70/409Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS25 March 1927
NLB/72/437Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr [Martin Onslow] Forster, FRS22 October 1929
IM/001500Forster, Martin Onslow1924
NLB/56/398Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Percy Faraday] Frankland, FRS29 January 1919
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MC/23/93Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, to Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House3 April 1908
NLB/37/690Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr M [Martin] O [Onslow] Foster, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1908
MC/33/57Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to The Secretaries, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1.7 June 1918
MC/33/58Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.1., to [Robert] Harrion, [Royal Society]12 July 1918
MC/33/26Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, The Chemical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.1, to The Secretary, Royal Society3 May 1918
MC/33/59Letter 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/23/92Letter from [Martin Onslow] Forster, Chemical Society, Burlington House, London, to the Secretary, Royal Society, Burlington House20 March 1908
MC/23Volume 23 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1908
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