Henry Lloyd Snape

Henry Lloyd Snape (20 April 1861 – 2 March 1933) was a professor of chemistry at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

He received a BSc in 1883 from London University and then went to Germany, studying under A. W. Hofmann in Berlin and the Victor Meyer in Göttingen.

He received a PhD in 1886 with a thesis titled Ueber die Einwirkung von Phenylcyanat auf einige Alkohole und Phenole.

One student was Thomas Jones who stated that:[1][2] The Professor of Chemistry was a full-fledged Doctor of Science and a man of great liveliness and energy.

Every limb of his body was summoned to assist him in the act of lecturing … Not one of us ever touched or handled a liquid or a solid, ever bruised or pounded anything in a mortar, ever measured or analysed a mixture in a test tube.In 1901 he became director of education for Lancashire county and retired in 1918 to Torquay.