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British chemist

Charles Wilson Vincent
Born11 May 1837
Islington, London, England
Died11 September 1905(1905-09-11) (aged 68)
Stoke Newington, England
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry

Charles Wilson Vincent FRSE FIC FCS (1837–1905) was a 19th-century British chemist, and was also librarian at both the Royal Institution and the Reform Club in London. He was a Sandemanian.

Life

He was born in Islington in London on 11 May 1837 the eldest of 12 children of Benjamin Vincent (1818-1899), a colleague of Michael Faraday, and his wife Janey Young. He was baptised in Clerkenwell on 16 June. Benjamin became a Sandemanian at the influence of Faraday in 1832.

He joined the Royal Institution in 1851 as Assistant Librarian, under his father as Librarian. Aged 14 his role presumably was that of a trainee or apprentice. A second son Robert Vincent also joined as second assistant. Charles began lecturing at the Royal College of Chemistry in 1854 (aged only 17).

He resigned as Librarian of the Royal Institution in 1857 to join the chemical industry.

He became a member of the Sandemanian Church in 1859 but resigned in 1864.

In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his contributions to chemistry. His proposers were Andrew Pritchard, William Rutherford, George James Allman and John Hutton Balfour.

He became librarian to the Reform Club in 1879, replacing Henry Campkin.

He died on 11 September 1905 in Stoke Newington.

Publications

  • On the Sulphur Deposits of Krlsuvik, Iceland (1873)
  • The Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art (from 1855 to 1876)
  • Burton Brewing Water (1878)
  • Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Analytical (1879)

Family

He was married to Ann or Anne Ross Baxter in 1864 at Islington Registry Office. They had a truly remarkable 20 children.

One of his sisters was named Sarah Faraday Vincent in honour of Faraday.

References

  1. "Benjamin Vincent (1818-1899)".
  2. Michael Faraday, Sandemanian and Scientist by G Cantor
  3. "Family tree" (PDF). link.springer.com. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  4. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  5. "Charles Vincent - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage".


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