FREDERICK CRACE

See also:

• CALVERT
• FREDERICK CRACE CALVERT (1819–1873)
• CALVERT, SIR HARRY, BART

CALVERT (1819–1873)  , English chemist, was born in London on the 14th of November 1819 . From about 1836 till 1846 he lived in France, where, after a course of study at Paris, he became manager of some chemical works, later acting as assistant to M . E . Chevreul . On his return to England he settled in Manchester as a consulting chemist, and was appointed professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution in that city . Devoting himself almost entirely to industrial chemistry, he gave much attention to the manufacture of coal-tar products, and particularly carbolic acid, for the production of which he established large works in Manchester in 1865 . Besides contributing extensively to the English and French scientific journals, he published a work on Dyeing and Calico-Printing .