See also
Husband:
Thomas Branson (1824-1910)
Wife:
Sarah Ann Woodward (1828- )
Children:
Marriage:
1849
Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
Name:
Thomas Branson
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
1824
Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
Baptism:
1 Feb 1824 (age 0)
Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
Census (1):
1851 (age 26-27)
Bricklayer, High Street, Hanslope
Census (2):
1861 (age 36-37)
Formerly builder, living with wife's parents, Hanslope
Census (3):
1871 (age 46-47)
Farmer, Hungate End, Hanslope, Bucks
Death fact:
1910 (age 85-86)
1910 Dec Q, Newport Pagnell, 3a/493 (aged 86)
Death:
1910 (age 85-86)
Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire
Baptism:
Parents: Thomas Branson (mason) & Lucy
Name:
Sarah Ann Woodward
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1828
Flecknoe, Warwickshire
Baptism:
20 Jan 1828 (age 0)
Wolfhamcote, Warwickshire
Census:
1861 (age 32-33)
Farmer's daughter, living with parents & husband
Baptism:
Parents: William Woodward (labourer) & Mary, residence Flecknoe
Name:
Frederick Woodward Branson
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Rose Mary Ellen Hartridge (1863-1924)
Children:
Frederick Hartridge Branson (1886-1952)
Rose May Branson (1888-1975)
Note 1:
Frederick Woodward Branson, 1851-1933.
Had Frederick Woodward Branson lived until the 6th March 1934, he would have attained his 83rd birthday. He passed away on November 30th, 1933, at his residence - Wynneholme, Far Headingley, Leeds. He was a native of Buckinghamshire, being born in Hanslope, and served his indentures in the pharmacy of Messrs. Jays in the Drapery at Northampton. He passed the Minor examination of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1873 and the Major in 1878. He was a student at King’s College, London, in 1880-1881 and was awarded the Clothworkers Science Prize in 1881. He was with John Bell & Co. in their historic pharmacy in Oxford Street from 1878 to 1881, acting as laboratory assistant to Samuel Gale.
He became a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1888 and a Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1882.
In 1883 Branson came to Leeds and entered into partnership with Mr. Richard Reynolds and his son, Mr. Fred Reynolds as wholesale and retail chemists and surgical instrument makers. Branson developed the scientific apparatus and chemical glassware side of the business and controlled the analyses undertaken, specialising in water analysis. In 1898 the business was converted into a private company, of which Branson was chairman until 1932, when he retired and his son, Mr. F. Hartridge Branson, A.I.C., became chairman and managing director.
Branson was elected a member of the Society of Glass Technology at its inaugural meeting in November, 1916, and a member of the first council of the Society. He was for some years Chairman of the Leeds and District Chemists Association. His services to pharmacy and chemistry were considerable.
Branson was a member of the Spectacle Makers’ Company and a Freeman of the City of London. He took a very active interest in Leeds Scientific Societies, being a member for over 50 years of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He was its President in 1928-1929 and 1929-1930.
Through his instrumentality radium was obtained from Madam Curie and exhibited in Leeds soon after its isolation. He was an early worker in radiography and devised an instrument for estimating the amount of exposure to X-rays needed to obtain a fully exposed plate. In a memoir of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen by Otto Glasser, 1933, Branson’s invention of a qualimeter is noticed.
Branson was also a member and past President of the Leeds Photographic Society and Leeds Naturalists Club. He was a sportsman of no mean character, being an accurate shot and indefatigable in following grouse on the Yorkshire Moors. He was Secretary to the Yorkshire Anglers, and served on the Eden Conservancy Board.
Branson’s garden was a joy to him even to the very last. He was happy in it and could therein lay aside business cares and anxieties. He was particularly interested in Alpine plants. His rock garden, the limestone of which he himself collected from the moors round Pateley Bridge, contained many uncommon "Alpines", very skilfully accommodated with an environment adapted to their needs.
Music was a recreation to Branson, a pianist of no mean ability and an enthusiastic supporter of the Leeds Philharmonic Society.
His wife, Mrs. Rose Branson, who died in 1924, was a well-known member of the Headingley Golf Club, as is also Miss R. M. Branson, his daughter; she and Mr. F. Hartridge Branson are his only children.
J. H. GOUGH.
Obituary Notices, J. Chem. Soc., 1934, 2012-2014
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?doi=10.1039%2fjr9340002012&fcategory=journal
With grateful thanks to Vicky Bollands
Note 2:
BRANSON Frederick Woodward of Wynneholme Far Headingley Leeds died 30 November 1933. Probate Wakefield 5 February 1934 to Frederick Hartridge Branson manufacturing chemist and Hubert Walker manufacturer. Effects £5744 5s. 8d.
Birth:
6 Mar 1851
Hanslope, Buckinghamshire
Birth fact:
1851 (age 0)
1851 Jun Qtr, Newport Pagnell, 6/420
Census (1):
1851 (age 0)
Living with parents (aged 3 weeks)
Census (2):
1861 (age 9-10)
Living with parents and grandparents, Hanslope
Census (3):
1871 (age 19-20)
Chemist's apprentice, 6 Drapery, All Saints, Northampton
Census (4):
1891 (age 39-40)
Chemist, 24 Mount Preston, Leeds, Yorks (1 son, 1 daughter)
Death:
30 Nov 1933 (age 82)
Wynneholme, Far Headingley, Leeds
Frederick Woodward Branson, 1851-1933.
Had Frederick Woodward Branson lived until the 6th March 1934, he would have attained his 83rd birthday. He passed away on November 30th, 1933, at his residence - Wynneholme, Far Headingley, Leeds. He was a native of Buckinghamshire, being born in Hanslope, and served his indentures in the pharmacy of Messrs. Jays in the Drapery at Northampton. He passed the Minor examination of the Pharmaceutical Society in 1873 and the Major in 1878. He was a student at King’s College, London, in 1880-1881 and was awarded the Clothworkers Science Prize in 1881. He was with John Bell & Co. in their historic pharmacy in Oxford Street from 1878 to 1881, acting as laboratory assistant to Samuel Gale.
He became a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1888 and a Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1882.
In 1883 Branson came to Leeds and entered into partnership with Mr. Richard Reynolds and his son, Mr. Fred Reynolds as wholesale and retail chemists and surgical instrument makers. Branson developed the scientific apparatus and chemical glassware side of the business and controlled the analyses undertaken, specialising in water analysis. In 1898 the business was converted into a private company, of which Branson was chairman until 1932, when he retired and his son, Mr. F. Hartridge Branson, A.I.C., became chairman and managing director.
Branson was elected a member of the Society of Glass Technology at its inaugural meeting in November, 1916, and a member of the first council of the Society. He was for some years Chairman of the Leeds and District Chemists Association. His services to pharmacy and chemistry were considerable.
Branson was a member of the Spectacle Makers’ Company and a Freeman of the City of London. He took a very active interest in Leeds Scientific Societies, being a member for over 50 years of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He was its President in 1928-1929 and 1929-1930.
Through his instrumentality radium was obtained from Madam Curie and exhibited in Leeds soon after its isolation. He was an early worker in radiography and devised an instrument for estimating the amount of exposure to X-rays needed to obtain a fully exposed plate. In a memoir of Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen by Otto Glasser, 1933, Branson’s invention of a qualimeter is noticed.
Branson was also a member and past President of the Leeds Photographic Society and Leeds Naturalists Club. He was a sportsman of no mean character, being an accurate shot and indefatigable in following grouse on the Yorkshire Moors. He was Secretary to the Yorkshire Anglers, and served on the Eden Conservancy Board.
Branson’s garden was a joy to him even to the very last. He was happy in it and could therein lay aside business cares and anxieties. He was particularly interested in Alpine plants. His rock garden, the limestone of which he himself collected from the moors round Pateley Bridge, contained many uncommon "Alpines", very skilfully accommodated with an environment adapted to their needs.
Music was a recreation to Branson, a pianist of no mean ability and an enthusiastic supporter of the Leeds Philharmonic Society.
His wife, Mrs. Rose Branson, who died in 1924, was a well-known member of the Headingley Golf Club, as is also Miss R. M. Branson, his daughter; she and Mr. F. Hartridge Branson are his only children.
J. H. GOUGH.
Obituary Notices, J. Chem. Soc., 1934, 2012-2014
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/results?doi=10.1039%2fjr9340002012&fcategory=journal
With grateful thanks to Vicky Bollands
BRANSON Frederick Woodward of Wynneholme Far Headingley Leeds died 30 November 1933. Probate Wakefield 5 February 1934 to Frederick Hartridge Branson manufacturing chemist and Hubert Walker manufacturer. Effects £5744 5s. 8d.