Raphael Meldola

Raphael Meldola

Prof. Raphael Meldola FRS, FRAS, FCS, FIC
Born	1849
Died	1915
Residence	21 John Street, Bedford Row, WC [1883] 6 Brunswick Square, WC [1888]
Occupation	chemist
Society Membership membership Ordinary Fellow - life compounder left 1915 deceased elected_AI 1881.06.28 clubs Essex Field Club Athenaeum Club Society of Maccabaeans societies Entomological Society of London Royal Society Royal Astronomical Society Institute of Chemistry Entomological Society of London Chemical Society

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Office Notes

AI Council 1886 Member
AI Council 1887 Member
AI Council 1888 Member
AI Council 1889 Member
AI Council 1890 Member

House Notes

1881.06.14 proposed
Vice President of the Entomological Society, and President of the Epping Forest and County of Essex Naturalists Field Club
Professor of Chemistry in the Finsbury Technical College, City and Guilds of London Institute
death noted in the report of the council for 1915

Notes From Elsewhere

Raphael Meldola FRS (19 July 1849 – 16 November 1915) was a British chemist and entomologist. He was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of London, 1912–5.

Born London; died London.
Worked for manufacturers of dyestuffs on which subject he became an expert. Professor of Chemistry, Finsbury Technical College (1885-1915). Had an interest in photography and published photographs of Nicobarese. Honorary degrees from Oxford, where he delivered Herbert Spencer lecture, and St Andrews.

Publications

House Publications

1876.05.23 an exhibition of photos by Mr Meldola, of natives of the Nicobar Islands