Thomas Edward Thorpe [SEP] date of death
Thomas Edward Thorpe
Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe CB, FRS HFRSE LLD (8 December 1845 – 23 February 1925) was a British chemist. He is usually simply called Edward Thorpe. From 1894 to 1909 he was Chief Chemist to the British Government, as Director of the Government Laboratory.
Life.
Born at Barnes Green in Harpurhey, Manchester, the son of George Thorpe, a cotton merchant at Trafford Bank and his wife, Mary Wilde. He was educated at Hulme Grammar School.
Thorpe originally worked as
Thomas Thorpe (disambiguation)
Thomas Thorpe or Thorp may refer to:
- Thomas Thorpe (1569–1635), English publisher
- Thomas Thorpe (fl. 1404), MP for Rutland (UK Parliament constituency)
- Thomas Thorpe (Speaker of the House of Commons) (d.1461)
- Thomas Bangs Thorpe (1815–1878), an American antebellum humorist and artist
- Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845–1925), British chemist
- Tom Thorpe (born 1993), English footballer
- Thomas Thorp (1925–present