MUSPRATT

James (son of Evan Muspratt, an English man, d. 1810). b. Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812, but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of pru iate of potash in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J. C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new works in Widnes and Flint; retired from busine 1857; was the chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom. d. Sea forth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. bur. in Walton parish churchyard. J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt , with portrait .