Walter Weldon

Walter Weldon
Born (1832-10-31)31 October 1832
Loughborough, England
Died 20 September 1885(1885-09-20) (aged 52)
Burstow England
Nationality British

Walter Weldon (31 October 1832 – 20 September 1885) FRS, FRSE was an English chemist, journalist.

Biography

Weldon was brother to Ernest J. Weldon, founder of Weldon & Wilkinson Ltd. Walter's second son was Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, an English evolutionary zoologist and biometrician.

In 1854 he began work as a journalist in London with The Dial (which was afterwards incorporated in The Morning Star), and in 1860 he started a monthly magazine, Weldon's Register of Facts and Occurrences relating to Literature, the Sciences and the Arts, which was later discontinued.[1]

His publications in the late 1800s were through Weldon & Company, a pattern company who produced hundreds of patterns and projects for numerous types of Victorian needlework. Around 1888, the company began to publish a series of books entitled Weldon’s Practical Needlework, each volume consisting of the various newsletters (one year of publications) bound together with a cloth cover and costing 2 shilling/6 pence. Weldon's Ladies' Journal (1875–1954) supplied dressmaking patterns, and was a blueprint for subsequent 'home weeklies'. .

Weldon was interested in parapsychology and was a spiritualist, he was a member of the Society for Psychical Research.[2][3]

Chemistry

Weldon was a successful chemist and developed the Weldon process to produce chlorine by boiling hydrochloric acid with manganese dioxide. MnO2 was expensive, and Weldon developed a process for its recycling by treating the manganese chloride produced with milk of lime and blowing air through the mixture to form a precipitate known as Weldon mud which was used to generate more chlorine.

Manganese dioxide reacts with hydrochloric acid to chlorine and Manganse chloride:

Bibliography

  • Weldon’s Practical Needlework
    • Volume 1 - practical knitting, patchwork & crochet, stitches explained.
    • Volume 2 - stocking knitter, cross-stitch embroidery, crewel work, bazaar articles, knitting, crochet, smocking, appliqué work, netting, lace, crochet edgings, knitting edgings.
    • Volume 3 - lace shawls, crocheted evening bags using macramé cord (corday).
    • Volume 4 - knitting, crochet, Mountmellick embroidery, smocking, tatting, decorative needlework, beadwork, macramé lace.
    • Volume 5- knitting, Mountmellick, crochet, drawn thread work,netting.
    • Volume 6 - crochet, knitting, ivory embroidery, canvas embroidery, jewelled embroidery, patchwork, linen embroidery, Mountmellick embroidery, macramé lace
    • Volume 7 - crinkled paper work, knick-knacks, ivory embroidery, knitting, crochet, church embroidery, Mountmellick embroidery, Japanese curtain work.
    • Volume 8 - crochet, Hungarian embroidery, church decorations, crinkled paper work, Mountmellick embroidery, knitting, Bulgarian embroidery.
    • Volume 9 - plain needlework, stock knitting, Mountmellick embroidery, crinkled and crepe tissue paper work, knitting, monograms & initials.
    • Volume 10 - appliqué embroidery, crochet, knitting, leather work, pincushions, point lace, ribbon plaiting.
    • Volume 11 - bent iron work, crochet, knitting, macramé & bead work, point lace, stocking knitter, torchon lace.
    • Volume 12 - crochet & knitted waistcoats, drawn thread work, knitting, Mountmellick embroidery, smocking, stocking knitter.

References

  1. ↑  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Weldon, Walter". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  2. ↑ Philip Joseph Hartog. (1899). Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 60. Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 164-165
  3. ↑ Nicol, Fraser. (1972). The Founders of the SPR. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 55: 341-367.
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