Henry Deacon (industrialist)

Henry Deacon ( born July 30, 1822 in London, † July 23, 1876 in Widnes ) was an English chemist and industrialist.

In 1836 he joined the company Galloway & Sons in London, moved in 1839 to company & Nasmyth Gaskell and 1848 glass factory in St. Helens. He designed a first steam hammer.

Henry Deacon has developed a process to from hydrogen chloride and oxygen in the air to win chlorine. The Leblanc process yielded large amounts of hydrogen chloride, which was used already in the previous process for the production of chlorine.

Named after him Deacon process was later replaced by the electrowinning in the chlor-alkali electrolysis.

Henry Deacon died of typhoid fever at his home in Widnes on 23 July 1876.

• Chemists ( 19th century)
• Briton
• Born in 1822
• Died in 1876
• Man