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4 unusual facts about Edmund Knowles Muspratt


Edmund Knowles Muspratt

Muspratt and Holbrook Gaskell went together to Paris to negotiate terms for the manufacturers.

He was then sent by his father to study chemistry under Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany.

His father was also a chemical industrialist who had established factories in Liverpool, St Helens and Newton-le-Willows.

Frederic Muspratt

Frederic was frequently absent from the factory and in 1867 its management was taken over by his father until this was passed to Frederic's younger brother, Edmund.



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