Calvert, FREDERICK CRACE, chemist, born in London in 1819, resided in France (1836-46), and settled as a consulting chemist in Manchester, where he died 24th October 1873. His researches in applied chemistry produced valuable results, and he was largely instrumental in introducing carbolic acid as a disinfectant. Besides numerous scientific papers, he published a work on Dyeing and Calico-printing (new ed. 1878).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 657
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