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Henry Bollmann Condy

1826–1907

Manufacturing chemist and author of works on sanitation. Probably a partner from 1854 in Condy Brothers & Co., a London firm of vinegar manufacturers and drysalters, and later essential oil and drug merchants. In partnership as Bollmann Condy & Co., vinegar manufacturers, c. 1864–5. By 1857, had developed and patented "Condy’s fluid", a disinfectant solution of alkaline permanganates that could be taken internally or used externally. Manufactured the fluid at his works in Battersea, c. 1867–97.

Sources

Chemical manufactories’ directory 1867–1901

Condy 1862

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 13 August 2018)

London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 13 August 2018)

NUC

Post Office London directory 1854–66.

Bibliography

Chemical manufactories’ directory: The chemical manufactories’ directory of England. London: 1867–1955.

Condy, Henry Bollmann. 1862. Air and water: their impurities and purification. London.

NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.

Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.

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