John Hinchley

[4] A national scholarship and the support of a friend enabled him to go to Imperial College, London[2] where he graduated in 1895 with first class honours.

[3][5] Returning to London he became assistant to a designer of acid plants and acetone production which stopped when his employer was killed in a road accident, so he became a chemical engineering consultant.

[9] In 1909 he was invited to give a series of 25 lectures on chemical engineering at Battersea Technical College,[10] the first regular curriculum in the subject in the UK.

[11][12] These were popular, and in 1911 he was appointed lecturer in chemical engineering for two days a week at Imperial College,[13][10] in 1917 becoming assistant professor, all the while continuing with his professional work, but passing on the course at Battersea.

[7] She designed the Seal for the Institution of Chemical Engineers, which was executed by medallist Cecil Thomas, a fellow member of the same Royal Society.