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Sir William Robert Grove NPG Ax17531

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

William Grove was called to the Bar in 1835 and began working as a barrister. After his marriage in 1837, he embarked on an extended tour of Europe, during which time he pursued his scientific interests. He published a paper on a new type of electric battery construction that, on Faraday's insistance, he presented at the Royal Institution in 1840. This presentation secured his respected reputation, leading him to become the first Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the London Institution in 1841. Grove was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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