Arthur Herbert Church

Sir Arthur Herbert Church ( born June 2, 1834 in London, † before June 11, 1915 ) was a British author, painter and chemist.

His father was John Thomas Church. After graduating from King's College London, studied at the Royal College of Chemistry and 1857-1861 at Lind College, Oxford (MA), then in London, where he became D.Sc. doctorate.

In 1869 he became professor at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester and in 1879 professor of chemistry at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He was a member of the Chemical Society. In 1914 he retired.

He was a leading authority in the chemistry of colors, and gave valuable assistance in the preservation of the paintings in the Houses of Parliament. According to him, the mineral is named Churchite and he named the mineral Woodwardit. He also published, for example, via china and Josiah Wedgwood.

He was three years president of the Mineralogical Society. In 1888 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He also painted himself and presented at the Royal Academy from.

Publications

• The laboratory guide; a manual of practical chemistry for colleges and schools, Specially arranged for agricultural students, 1888 and later editions
• The chemistry of paints and painting, London, 3rd edition, 1901
• English porcelain of the eighteenth century, HM Stationery Office, 1911
• English earthenware; a handbook to the wares made ​​in England falling on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as illustrated by specimens in the national collections, Chapman and Hall 1884, reprint 1904, 1911
• Food: some account of its sources, Constituents, and uses, London 1888
• Josiah Wedgwood, master potter, London, 1894, 1903
• Precious stones Considered In Their scientific and artistic relations. A guide to the Townshend collection, HM Stationery Office, 1913