About Henry Holmes Croft
Lived 1820 – 1883 (aged 62). Henry Holmes Croft was a chemist and forensic scientist.
Henry Holmes Croft (March 6, 1820 in London – March 1, 1883 in San Diego, Texas) was a British scientist and educator in Canada. He was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto.
Croft was educated at the University of Berlin. He was invited to join the faculty at King's College (now the University of Toronto) in Toronto, arriving in 1842. From 1850 to 1853 he was university vice-chancellor and later with the university senate.
Croft was a member and the founder of the University Rifle Corps (9th Company of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) in the 1860s and participated in the Fenian raids as captain in 1866. Croft left Toronto in 1880 to retire to his son's ranch in Texas.
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Who was Henry Holmes Croft?
British scientist and chemist
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Henry Holmes Croft was born on 6 March 1820 in London.
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Henry Holmes Croft died on 1 March 1883 in San Diego.
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Henry Holmes Croft was a chemist and forensic scientist.
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