George Frederick Ansell
1826–80
Chemist and assayer. Apprenticed to a surgeon. Studied at the Royal College of Chemistry. Assistant, Royal School of Mines. Scientific director, Royal Panopticon, Leicester Square, London, 1854. Head of the rolling-room, Royal Mint, 1856–68. Practised as an analytical chemist and assayer from 1869.
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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