Robert Warington

Robert Warington FRS (7 September 1807 – 17 November 1867) was an English chemist considered the driving force behind the creation of the world's first enduring chemistry society, The Chemical Society of London, which later became the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Life Born on 7 September 1807 in Sheerness, Kent, he was the third son of Thomas Warington (1773–1843), a ship's victualler and wine merchant, From 1842 (upon Hennell's death) until shortly before his death he was the chemical operator at the Society of Apothecaries. He published his findings in 1851 in the Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society of London. and his work is the origin of modern aquaria.