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Arthur Herbert Church

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Church worked at the college in Cirencester from 1863 to 1879 as a professor. He also worked as a Honorary Curator at the Cirencester Museum of Roman Antiquities. These associations led to work that included analysis of plants, soil, and minerals, extending into gemstones, porcelain and pigments. He
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mineral. He was also a talented artist and worked as a professor of chemistry at the Agricultural College in Cirencester and then at the Royal Academy of Arts. He wrote extensively on aspects of chemistry in agriculture, art, and daily life.
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had copper. He also discovered aluminium in a range of plant ashes. Another discovery was a mineral from Cornwall that contained Cerium phosphate and called as Churchite.
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in 1888. As a painter of repute and an expert on the chemistry of paints, he was chosen for the restoration of paintings and frescoes in the Palace of Westminster.
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English porcelain; a handbook to the china made in England during the eighteenth century as illustrated by specimens chiefly in the national collections
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New York Times:FAMOUS CHEMIST DEAD.; Sir Arthur H. Church Was Also an Expert on Pottery and Stones.
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where he showed an interest in both science and art. He spent four years from 1851 to 1855 at the
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and found that the pigment had 5.8% copper. He then examined the food of the bird and found that
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examined the red water-soluble plumage of a West African Tauraco after being introduced to it by
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Kurzer, Frederick (2006). "Arthur Herbert Church FRS and the Palace of Westminster frescoes".
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where he took a special interest in pigments, glazes and other matters. He was elected
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Church was born in London, the son of John Thomas Church, a solicitor. His studied at
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Precious stones : considered in their scientific and artistic relations (1891)
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with whom he published his first research paper. The next four years were spent at
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Church, A. H.; Perkin, William Henry (1857). "IV. On some new colouring matters".
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Church wrote several books on organic, physiological and mineralogical chemistry.
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Wikisource:Death of Sir A. H. Church;Royal Academy Professor of Chemistry
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in 1909. He died at Shelsley, Kew Gardens in 1915, and is buried in
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In 1879, Church became the first professor of chemistry at the
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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in 1869 and several minerals, including the only British
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London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer
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KCVO
FCS
chemist
turacin
cerium
King's College London
Royal College of Chemistry
William Henry Perkin
Lincoln College, Oxford
W. B. Tegetmeier

Royal Academy of Arts
fellow of the Royal Society
American Antiquarian Society
KCVO
Richmond Cemetery
Food (1880)
1911 edition
Food-grains of India (1886)
Laboratory Guide for Agricultural Students (1888)
The Chemistry of Paints and Painting
Precious stones : considered in their scientific and artistic relations (1891)
Josiah Wedgwood, master-potter (1903)
Colour : an elementary manual for students (1907)
doi
10.1098/rspl.1856.0015
"Researches on Turacin, an Animal Pigment Containing Copper"
doi
10.1098/rstl.1869.0024
JSTOR

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