Arthur Lapworth

He educated at St Andrew's and King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham.

From 1893 to 1895 he worked on a scholarship at the Central Technical College City and Guilds of London Institute on the chemistry of camphor and camphene with F. S. Kipping and with H. E. Armstrong on the sulfonation of ethers of b-naphthol.

His proposal for the reaction mechanism for the benzoin condensation is the basis for our modern-day understanding of organic chemistry.

He enjoyed carpentry, geology, climbing, fishing and was introduced to birdwatching by Kennedy J. P. Orton.

[7] Arthur Lapworth retired in 1935 and died on 5 April 1941 in a nursing home in Withington.