John Hall Gladstone [SEP] date of death
John Hall Gladstone
John Hall Gladstone FRS (7 March 1827 – 6 October 1902) was a British chemist. He served as President of the Physical Society between 1874 and 1876 and during 1877–1879 was President of the Chemical Society. Apart from chemistry, where one of his most notable publications was on bromination of rubber, he undertook pioneering work in optics and spectroscopy.
Biography.
He was born to John Gladstone, a wholesale draper in Hackney, London and Alison Hall, as the eldest of three sons. The
Court Hey Hall
Court Hey Hall was a mansion in England built for Robertson Gladstone (1805–1875), elder brother of William Gladstone.
The hall was built c.1836 in the west of what is now Knowsley borough in Merseyside. The architect may have been John Cunningham, the designer of Liverpool Lime Street railway station.
The estate stayed in the Gladstone family until the death of one of his sons in 1919, then was purchased in the same year by J. Bibby and Sons, cattle food manufacturers. The hall was