Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures
Spouse(s)
Susan Webb Cushman (1848–1859; her death); 3 children Ann Neal (1860–1871; his death)
Scientific career
Fields
Research chemist
Dr James Sheridan MusprattFRSEFRSD (8 March 1821 – 3 February 1871) was an Irish-born researchchemist and teacher. His most influential publication was his two-volume book Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures (1857–1860).
In 1848, Muspratt founded the Liverpool College of Chemistry in a disused stable at the back of his house in Canning Street, Liverpool.[4]
Upon his father's retirement in 1857, he became a partner along with his brothers in his father's chemicals manufacturing business.
But it was also in the late 1850s that he wrote the textbook Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures. The German translation of this book by Friedrich Stohmann was widely read in Germany,[5] which was the leading nation in the field at the time. Muspratt also published translation into English of some German-language chemistry.[6]
Family
Muspratt took an interest in theatre and helped to organise a visit to Liverpool of Charles Dickens's amateur company in 1847. Among the cast were the American actress Susan Webb Cushman. Muspratt married Susan in 1848 and they had three daughters. Susan died in 1859 and Muspratt remarried, to Ann Neal of Rainhill the following year. They had no children and Muspratt died at his home in West Derby, Liverpool in 1871.[2]
^ abP. J. Hartog; rev. Trevor I. Williams (2004). "Muspratt, James Sheridan (1821–1871)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 July 2007.