Leonard Temple Thorne (1855–1941)

Chemist. PhD, Würzburg, 1881. Assistant to William Perkin in his Surrey laboratory from 1881. Chemist at the Oxygen Company, 1886. Later worked for Garton Hill, a supplier of brewing ingredients. Invented the ‘triangle method’ of vacuum distillation.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 April 2018)

Sella 2009

Würzburger Hochschulschriften: 1804–1885, Bestandsverzeichnis, p. 41