Henry Edward Armstrong
1848–1937
Chemist and educational reformer. Studied chemistry at the Royal College of Chemistry, London, 1865–7. PhD, Leipzig, 1870. Taught at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1870–82. Professor of chemistry, London Institution, 1871–84; at the Central Institution (later Central Technical College), South Kensington, London, 1884–1912. President of the Chemical Society, 1893–5. Made many contributions to organic chemistry, including important work on dyestuffs; reformed the elementary teaching of science in schools, and advocated that all secondary schools should be equipped with laboratories. Author of Introduction to organic chemistry (1874), and The teaching of scientific method (1903). FRS 1876.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
