Luke Howard, FRS

Apprenticed to Olive Sims, Stockport, from 1788.

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1821.

"Luke Howard served his apprenticeship with a chemist, Olive Sims, in Cheshire (see Nos. 1372-1377) and later founded a chemical manufacturing business at Plaistow (later moved to Stratford) in Essex, at first in conjunction with William Allen and then for a few years with Joseph Jewell. There are occasional references to the laboratory and to chemical experiments in Luke's letters and diaries. The firm, latterly known as Howards and Son's Ltd. ,is now merged in Laporte industries ltd., who have deposited the early records of the Howard business in the archives. (Middlesex Section) under accession Number 1037."

1796: living at Fleet Street

1861: living at 40 Bruce Grove