Frederick Daniel Chattaway

Chattaway was born at Foleshill, Warwickshire to ribbon and trimmings manufacturer Daniel Clarke and Eliza Anne Adcock.

His father's family business in Coventry collapsed after the 1870 treaty with France and Chattaway depended on scholarships for his education.

He passed first class in natural sciences in 1891 and then went to Germany to work under Adolf von Baeyer and Eugen Bamberger at Munich.

In 1905 he moved to Heidelberg to study under George Bredig and then went to Utrecht working under Ernst Cohen.

[1] Chattaway married Elizabeth Bettany of Handsworth in 1894 and they had a daughter Mary Margaret (1899–1997) who became a botanist and a son who was killed in 1916 while serving with the Cheshire Regiment at Thiepval.