Welsh surgeon and apothecary (1734–1816)
Thomas Henry
Born 26 October 1734 Died 18 June 1816 Occupations Children William Henry
Thomas Henry FRS (26 October 1734 – 18 June 1816) was a surgeon and apothecary .[ 1] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and also the father of William Henry , the chemist who formulated Henry's Law .
Background
Henry was born in Wrexham , Wales training as a surgeon-apothecary in that town.[ 2] He later moved to Manchester in England.[ 3]
Career
He invented a process for preparing magnesia alba in 1771 and became known as "Magnesia" Henry. He was a founder and afterwards president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society .[ 4]
In 1776, Thomas Henry speculated tongue in cheek that Joseph Priestley ’s newly discovered dephlogisticated air (now called oxygen ) might become “as fashionable as French wine at the fashionable taverns”. He did not expect, however, that tavern goers would “relish calling for a bottle of Air, instead of Claret ”.[ 5]
After Priestley's publication of a method to make carbonated water , Henry manufactured "artificial Pyrmont and Seltzer waters " for sale in the late 1770s, imitating the famous sparkling mineral waters , e.g. from Selters .[ 6]
In 1786, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society .[ 7]
References
^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Henry, Thomas (1734-1816)" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 28 December 2011 .
^ Davies, John ; Jenkins, Nigel ; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales . Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6 .
^ Craig Thornber, "Thomas Henry, FRS and his son, William Henry, MD, FRS, GS", Cheshire Antiquities
^ The Book of Manchester and Salford ; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 34-35
^ Thomas Henry F. R. S. “Essays Physical and Chemical by M. Lavoisier – Translated from the French, with Notes, and an Appendix, by Thomas Henry”, note from The London Review of English and Foreign Literature by W. Kenrick, Vol IV, T. Evans, Pater-Noster-Row, 1776, p 214
^ "SOFT DRINKS Their origins and history" (PDF) . British Soft Drinks Association . 1991. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2024-06-16 .
^ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 2021-04-06 .
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