Henry Lloyd Snape

Henry Lloyd Snape (20 April 1861 – 2 March 1933) was a professor of chemistry, notably at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He was an influential teacher and his students included F. D. Chattaway and W. H. Lewis.

Snape was educated at Liverpool Institute followed by the School of Medicine where he studied chemistry under Campbell Brown between 1876 and 1879. He then worked at John Hutchinson and Company of Widnes and later worked as a demonstrator under Campbell Brown. He received a BSc in 1883 from London University and then went to Germany, studying under A. W. Hofmann in Berlin and Victor Meyer in Göttingen.

Career He became a lecturer in chemistry at Manchester Technical School after returning to England and in 1888 he moved to Aberystwyth as chair of chemistry at the University College of Wales to replace Professor Thomas Samuel Humpidge.

In 1901 he became director of education for Lancashire county and retired in 1918 to Torquay. Ill health reduced his work in chemistry but he participated in educational and church committees. He worked as a Wesleyan preacher and wrote on systematic and proportionate giving. He was appointed as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1921 for his work in training disabled servicemen.