Edmund Knowles Muspratt

Edmund Knowles Muspratt was an English chemical industrialist.

Edmund Knowles Muspratt was born in Seaforth, near Liverpool, England, the fourth and youngest son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine ne Connor. His father was also a chemical industrialist who had established factories in Liverpool, St Helens and NewtonleWillows. He was educated at the Pestalozzian Institute at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was then sent by his father to study chemistry under Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen in HesseDarmstadt, Germany. When Liebig moved to the University of Munich in 1852, Muspratt went with him and studied medicine there where he gained the degree of PhD He then returned to Liverpool to work with his father in his businesses. He married Frances Jane Baines and together they had eight children, including Suffragists, Nessie StewartBrown, Julia Solly and Liberal MP, Max Muspratt.

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