Mr. E. R. Bolton

EDWARD RICHARDS BOLTON, who died on February 10, was born in Dublin in 1878, and was the only son of J. A. Bolton of Blackrock, Co. Dublin, of long Irish ancestry. He was at school at Bedford (Elstow) and studied chemistry at King's College, London, and in Fresenius's laboratory, Wiesbaden. On his return to England he was engaged for a short period in heavy chemical industry in Newcastle and in 1902 became chemist to the East India Products Oil Mills, Hammersmith, later Loders and Nucoline, Ltd. At these mills, Bolton carried out the first caustic refining of coco-nut oil in Great Britain. He became a director of the firm, having in the meantime started in analytical and consulting practice in Hammersmith.