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See also:ELKINGTON, See also:GEORGE See also:RICHARDS (1801-1865) , founder of the See also:electroplating See also:industry in See also:England, was See also:born in See also:Birmingham on the 17th of See also:October 18o1, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncles, See also:silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their See also:death, See also:sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his See also:cousin, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Elkington, into See also:partnership. The See also:science of See also:electrometallurgy was then in its See also:infancy, but the Elkingtons were See also:quick to recognize its possibilities. They had already taken out certain See also:patents for the application of See also:electricity to metals when, in 1840, See also:John See also:Wright, a Birmingham surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a See also:solution of See also:cyanide of silver in cyanide of See also:potassium for electroplating purposes. The Elkingtons See also:purchased and patented Wright's See also:process, subsequently acquiring the rights of other processes and improvements. Large new See also:works for electroplating and electrogilding were opened in Birmingham in 1841, and in the following See also:year See also:Josiah See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason became a partner in the See also:firm. George Richards Elkington died on the 22nd of See also:September 1865, and Henry Elkington on the 26th of October 1852.
End of Article: ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (1801-1865)
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