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HENRY RICHARASTON PROCTER, born at North Shields 1848, was the son of a tanner, a member of the society of Friends. He was educated at Bootham Scnool and received his scientific training at the Royal College of Chemistry and the School of Mines. He entered the tanning industrv and remained on Tyneside until 1891, when he was invited to the Yorkshire College, Leeds, to take charge of a new department to be opened there in the special interest of the leather industry. In this Procter achieved distinguished success, and his work afforded as fine an example as could well be cited of the part which applied science may properly take within the circle of university studies. Students came to Procter from all parts of the world. He was a thorough man of science, an eager and fruitful investigator, and an excellent teacher. He gave to the industry the means of scientific control and development in many directions, and placed his discoveries freely at its disposal. His text-books have long been the standard works in the science of leather manufacture.
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S., A. Prof. H. R. Procter, F.R.S. Nature 120, 376–377 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120376a0
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