Frankland, Percy

Frankland, Percy F. 1890. Lead Poisoning by Soft-Water Supplies. Transactions of the Sanitary Institute 11 235-241. 

Hartle, who had been taught by Freund at Newnham, had spent 2 years at Birmingham as a researcher with Percy Frankland, spouse of Toynbee. Frankland was another champion of women chemists. In fact, it will always be an unanswered question whether it was the men, such as Ramsay and Frankland, who provided many of the links between women at different universities, as they would have had the professional and social network to do so. 

Percy Frankland, together with his father, Edward Frankland, had set up a private analytical laboratory in London, and it was here that Toynbee commenced her scientific career. Though both father and son were chemists, they had a strong interest in bacteriological problems, particularly those relating to human health. Toynbee s first publication, co-authored with Percy Frankland, was on microorganisms in air. 

Percy Frankland was appointed in 1888 as Professor of Chemistry at University College, Dundee, and the institution s magazine, The College, reported Any notice of Dr. Frankland would be incomplete without some reference to Mrs. Frankland, who has worthily aided and seconded him in his scientific... 

Probably in few cases have husband and wife collaborated so effectively and enthusiastically in both research and professional work. On one occasion it was said, Many women in the past have helped their husbands, but Percy Frankland is the first man who had the chivalry to admit it. 20... 

Garner, W. E. (1945-1948). Percy Faraday Frankland. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 5 697. 

Anon. (16 March 1889). Professor Percy F. Frankland. The College, Magazine of University College, Dundee 1(3) 87. 

Another extensive application is in the sterilisation of water. As early as 1886 experiments were carried out on the c onisation of water to effect the removal of organic matter and bacteria. Eight years previously Pasteur had introduced his germ theory of disease and the danger of transmitting diseases such as typhoid and cholera by vitiated waters was beginning to be realised. In 1885 Percy Frankland had shown that almost all the bacterial content of water... 

See William Reginald Ormandy, Britain and Germany in relation to the chemical trade, Royal Society of Arts, 2 December 1914, reprinted in Chemical News, 111 (1 January 1915), 3-8 The war and British economic policy The aniline dye industry, Chemical News, 111 (16 Febmary 1915), 97 The war and British chemical industry, Nature, 95 (1 April 1915), 119-20. See also Percy F. Frankland, The chemical industries of Germany, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 24 (7), reprinted in Chemical News, 111 (18 May 1915), 255-257 (4 June), 266-268 (11 June), 277-280, 291. The well-known facts of the coal tar dye industry and its takeover by Germany were assembled for a popular readership in The British Coal Tar Industry Its Origin, Development and Decline, edited by W.M. Gardener (London, 1915). 

Percy Faraday Frankland (London, 3 October 1858-Loch Awe, Scotland, 28 October 1946), son of Edward Frankland, professor in Birmingham (1900—18), did much work on optical activity and in general organic chemistry, also on the bacteriology of water and on sewage. He described improved methods for the preparation of thiocarbonyl chloride and perchloride. ... 

The memorial plaque is not the only tribute to the early history of biocatalysis at Birmingham. The Frankland Building commemorates Percy Frankland, who was professor of chemistry at Mason College, and whose views of biocatalysis have already been noted (Frankland, 1897). The Howarth Building commemorates the leader of the group at Birmingham responsible for their synthesis of L-ascorbic acid (Scheme 1.9). 

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