FOURDRINIER

Henry . b. Lombard st. London 11 Feb. 1766; succeeded his father as a paper maker and wholesale stationer; patented with his brother Sealy (who d. 1847) invention of paper making machine 1801, perfected their machine for making continuous paper 1807; became bankrupt 1810; £7000 voted by Parliament to Me rs. Fourdrinier as compensation for their lo by defective state of law of patents 8 May 1840. d. Mavesyn, Rydware, Staffs. 3 Sep. 1854. G.M. xliv , 102–103 (1855); I.L.N. xxv , 345, 354 (1854), portrait . FOWKE, Francis . b. Belfast, July 1823; 2 lieut. R.E. 18 June 1842, captain 17 Feb. 1854 to death; inspector of Science and Art department, London 1857, architect and engineer to same department; sec. to English commi ion attached to Paris exhibition 1855–57; designed Museum of science and art, Edinburgh, opened 19 May 1866; planned buildings for International Exhibition 1862; Albert hall was chiefly designed by him; author of A description of the buildings at South Kensington for the reception of the Sheepshanks pictures 1858; Some account of the buildings designed for the International Exhibition of 1862 , 1861. d. The Museum, South Kensington 4 Dec. 1865, bust by Woolner in the Museum. Papers on profe ional subjects, Corps. of R.E. xxv , 9; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx , 468–70 (1866); I.L.N. xl , 431, 433 (1862), portrait .