Overview
Walter Weldon FRS FRSE (31 October 183220 September 1885) was a 19th-century English industrial chemist and journalist. He was President of the Society of Chemical Industry from 1883-84.
Life
He was born in Loughborough on 31 October 1832, the son of Reuben Weldon and his wife, Esther Fowke.
Weldon was brother to Ernest James Weldon, founder of Weldon & Wilkinson Ltd.
In 1854 he began work as a journalist in London with The Dial (which was afterwards incorporated in The Morning Star), and in 1860 he started a monthly magazine, Weldon's Register of Facts and Occurrences relating to Literature, the Sciences and the Arts, which was later discontinued. In the 1860s he turned to industrial chemistry, described below. However, he is remembered for his pattern work.
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