Henry Moule
Henry Moule ( born January 27, 1801 in Melksham, † February 3, 1880 in Fordington ) was a priest of the Church of England and inventor of the dry toilet (dry earth closet ).
Life
Training and priesthood
Moule, sixth son of George Moule ( lawyer and banker ) was born in Melksham, Wiltshire, England and attended the local school in Marlborough. Then he came a scholarship to St. John 's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1821. In 1821 he was a curate in his home town of Melksham and moved in 1829 as parish priest after Fordington (now part of Dorchester ), where he remained until his death.
For some years he took over the duty of the pastor troops in the barracks of Dorchester. For this purpose, as well as for his own church he built, in part from the proceeds of his sermons barracks in 1846 a church known as Christ Church, West Fordington.
Dry earth closet
During the cholera epidemics of 1849 and 1854, his efforts were tireless. Impressed by the unhealthiness of the houses, especially in the summer of 1858 during the Great Stench he turned his attention to the science and invented what dry earth system ( dry land Earth system ) is called. In partnership with James Bannehr he filed a patent for the method to (No. 1316 of 28 May 1860). Some of his works on the subject were:
- The Advantages of the Dry Earth System ( The Benefits of Dry Earth Systems), 1868;
- The Impossibility overcome: or the inoffensive, safe, and Economical Disposal of the Refuse of Towns and Villages, 1870;
- The Dry Earth System ( The Dry Earth System), 1871;
- Town Refuse, the Remedy for Local Taxation ( Urban waste disposal by local taxes), 1872, and
- National Health and Wealth promoted by the general doption of the Dry Earth System (National Health and prosperity promoted by the general spread of the Dry Earth Systems), 1873. His system what ADOPTED in private houses, in rural districts, in military camps, in many hospitals, and extensively in the British Raj.
His system was built in private homes, in the rural districts, in military camps, in many hospitals, especially in the colonies in India.
More life data
In 1855, he also wrote an important work titled "Eight letters to Prince Albert, as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, stimulated by the conditions in the parish of Fordington, which belonged to this duchy. In two letters published in The Times on 24 February. and 2 April 1874, he spoke in favor of a plan for extracting gas from shale Kimmeridger. He died at the Presbytery Fordingtoner on 3 February 1880. 1824 married Mary Evans Moule Mullett († August 21, 1877 ). They had eight sons:
A grandson, CFD Moule, was a respected Anglican theologian.