Frederick Daniel Chattaway
English organic chemist (1860 - 1944)
Frederick Daniel Chattaway (9 November 1860 – 27 January 1944) was an English organic chemist who trained in Germany. He served as a professor of chemistry at Queen's College, Oxford, where he pioneered research in organic chemistry. He was also interested in nitrogen halides, anilides, and amides.
Life and work
Chattaway was born at Foleshill, Warwickshire to ribbon and trimmings manufacturer Daniel Clarke and Eliza Anne Adcock. His father's family business in Coventry collapsed after the 1870 treaty with France and Chattaway depended on scholarships for his education.
He was privately tutored by Rev. J.S. Withers, after which he went to Mason College, where he studied chemistry under Sir William Tilden. He then went to the School of Mines in London and considered studying medicine, but was unable to bear the sight of dissections. He shifted to chemistry and went to University College, Aberystwyth studying under Henry Lloyd Snape.
Two years later, Chattaway went to Christ Church, Oxford under A. G. Vernon Harcourt.
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