James Sheridan Muspratt
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James Sheridan Muspratt was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 8, 1821 and died in Liverpool in February or March of 1871. He was the son of James Muspratt, another famous Irish chemist.
He studied chemistry under Thomas Graham at Glasgow and London and under Liebig at Giessen. In 1841 Muspratt founded the Liverpool College of Chemistry, though it is his 1857-1860 Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures that he is remembered.
From 1854 to 1860 he was occupied in preparing a dictionary of Chemistry ... as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures, which was translated into German and Russian, and he published a translation of Plattner's treatise on the blow-pipe in 1845, and Outlines of Analysis in 1849. His original work included a research on the sulphites (1845), and the preparation of toluidine and nitro-aniline in 1845-1846 with AW Hofmann.
