George Samuel Newth

George Samuel Newth (1851–1936) was an English chemist, best known for a series of popular chemistry books.

Born in Plymouth, England, Newth was the son of Dr. the Rev Samuel Newth (1821–1898), principal of New College London, a noted Biblical scholar, non-conformist and mathematician. Newth's address in 1871 was 25 Clifton Road, Marylebone when he lived with his parents. He lived with his wife Margaret in Ealing in 1891 and in 1901 they were living at Lyndhunt (or Lyndhurst) House, 222 Maldon Road, Croydon, Surrey. Newth was also resident in either Godstone or Wallington [at 'The Sheilings'] in Surrey between 1901-1910.

Newth was a student (1869–1871) and demonstrator/lecturer and later examiner in Chemistry at the Royal College of Science in London (now Imperial College) from 1871 to 1909. He worked with other noted chemists including Edward Frankland and William A. Tilden. He was also, in his youth, a keen cyclist and his name and details of a race (in London) from Finchley to Welwyn and back appear in a copy of a US cycle magazine.

A full and interesting account of this race is recorded in a New Zealand paper :

Newth was also an amateur keeper of honey bees after 1898 and letters from him and a photograph of his bee hives at his home(s) in Wallington and Godstone in Surrey appear in the British Bee Keepers Journal between 1901-1910. Other letters and replies to his communications can be accessed by searching on line .pdf copies of this journal with the term 'newth'.

George Samuel Newth died in Hythe, Kent, England in 1936. No photographs have yet surfaced of him, although photographs of his father Samuel Newth are known

G. S. Newth was the author of a number of popular books in chemistry, most notably Chemical Lecture Experiments [Reviewed in Nature 47, 97-98 (1 December 1892)]and Inorganic Chemistry. He was elected a fellow of the Chemical Society in 1894.

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