PIESSE

George William Septimus (7 child of Charles A. J. Pie e, chief clerk in war office). b. 30 May 1820; a practical optician; studied chemistry under profe or Graham at University college, London; an analytical chemist; in the employment of J. and E. At kins on, perfumers, and then with Francis Henry Breidenbach; in partnership with Wilhelm Lubin, as perfumers at 2 New Bond st. London with large cellars under the street 1855, flower farmers near Nice, lavender gardeners at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in the London docks where the perfumed spirits for exportation were made; introduced frangipani, ki -me-quick, the trump card, and other mixed perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of ribbon of Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early a ociate of Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium a true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical, natural and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical wonders 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of obtaining the odours of plants 1865. d. Hugh end on house, Grove park, Chiswick 23 Oct. 1882. G. L. M. Strau ’ England’s Workshops (1864) 170–8; Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p. 496 portrait ; Journal of Chemical Soc. xliii 255 (1883).