Percy F. Frankland

The following year he was admitted to the Royal School of Mines, where he was taught by his father, Frederick Guthrie, T H Huxley, Judd and Warington Smyth[5] Although he gained a Brackenbury scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1878, and graduated with a BSc three years later, he was steered away from medicine to chemistry by his father.

Frankland returned to London in 1880, and became a demonstrator of practical chemistry at the Normal School of Science, South Kensington.

[6] Frankland left London in 1888 to become Professor of Chemistry at Dundee, where his main scientific interests were in stereochemistry and in the preparation of pure cultures of bacilli, which were allowed to grow in solutions of sugars.

The couple had two sons and a daughter: the parasitologist Helga Maud Toynbee Frankland,[13] who wrote about her grandfather Percy and other family members.

[14] Percy Faraday Frankland died on 28 October 1946 at the village of Loch Awe, Argyll.