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Jeyes’s first venture into business came when he, his elder brother, also
Philadelphus, and James Atkins, a local nurseryman, went into partnership in the early 1840s. It is not known how long this lasted but twenty years later Jeyes, by then married with six children, moved to London; in 1863 he was
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Jeyes patented his disinfectant liquid in 1877. The product was made in a factory in the grounds of his home, Richmond House, in
Plaistow. He and his son Walter also established Jeyes' Sanitary Compounds Company Ltd in 1879, but the firm went into voluntary liquidation in 1884; its assets were sold
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The John Jeyes Award was founded in 1975 and is awarded every two years for chemistry in relation to the environment. The award was previously named the John Jeyes lectureship and was first awarded to
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