John George Children
John George Children was born on May 18, 1777. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About John George Children
John George Children FRS FRSE FLS PRES DL (18 May 1777 – 1 January 1852 in Halstead, Kent) was a British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist. Children established a chemical laboratory at his father's home Ferox Hall and conducted experiments into galvanic cells. Following Children's father's bankruptcy and sale of the family estates in 1812 he was forced to seek employment, and in 1816 following a failed attempt at establishing a gunpowder business with his friend Sir Humphry Davy he became the assistant librarian of the department of antiquities at the British Museum in London. In 1822 Davy…