Frederick Settle Barff
1823 Born son of Frederick Barff, of Willesden, Middlesex.
Educ at Hackney School, Hackney.
1840. Entered Cambridge Univ
1844 Graduated
1847 Became a priest
1851 Became a Roman Catholic
Painted some of the frescoes at Stonyhurst College.
1864 Studied chemistry at University College, London.
1868-85 Teacher of Chemistry at the Jesuit College, Beaumont, Jersey.
Delivered the Cantor Lectures on artistic pigments and glass painting, 1870 and 1872.
1871 Frederick S Barff 48, assistant professor of chemistry at University College, London, lived in Hampstead with Margaretta Barff 42[1]
Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Academy of Arts, and at the Catholic University College, Kensington.
Invented a process for the preservation of iron from rust Barff's (or George Bower and Frederick Barff's process); also Brolycerine for the preservation of fruit.
1880 John Dewrance took control of Barff's research laboratory and staff; this establishment subsequently became known as the Albion Chemical Works.
1886 Died at Buckingham.
See here for an illustration of a wrought iron pipe protected by Bower and Barff's process (Science Museum image).
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ 1871 census
- Cambridge Univ Alumni