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See also: English chemist, was See also: born in See also: London on the I1th of See also: January 1788
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After leaving See also: Westminster school, he was apprenticed, in 1802, to his See also: brother, an apothecary, with the view of adopting the profession of See also: medicine, but his bent was towards chemistry, a See also: sound know-ledge of which he acquired in his spare See also: time
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In 1812 he was appointed professor of chemistry to the Apothecaries' Society, and delivered a course of lectures before the See also: Board of See also: Agriculture in place of See also: Sir See also: Humphry See also: Davy, whom in the following See also: year he succeeded in the chair of chemistry at the Royal Institution, London
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His See also: Manual of Chemistry, first published in 1819, enjoyed wide popularity, and among other See also: works he brought out a See also: Dictionary of Science, Literature and See also: Art in 1842, on a new edition of which he was engaged when he died at Tunbridge See also: Wells on the 11th of See also: February 1866
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