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Born, Stockton-on Tees, 1871; educated at the Friends School, Ackworth, Middlesborough High School, Stockton Grammar School, Leys School, Cambridge; read chemistry at Victoria University, Manchester, graduating, 1891; studied at the University of Heidelberg under Professor Victor Meyer; Head of the Chemical Department, Battersea Polytechnic, 1896; Lecturer in Chemistry and Metallurgy, Owen's College, Manchester, 1898-1905; Professor of Applied Chemistry, first Livesey Professor of Coal Gas and Fuel Industries, Leeds University, 1905-1912; Professor and Head of Department, Department of Chemical Technology, Imperial College, 1912-1936; inventor of the Bonecourt system of surface combustion and radiophragm-beating; President, Section B (Chemistry) of the British Association, 1915; Chairman, British Association Committee on Fuel Economy, 1915-1922; consultant, Government Fuel Research Board, 1917-1918; Chaiman, Federation of British Industries Fuel Economy Technical Sub-Committee, 1920; Chairman of the Blast Furnace Reactions Research Sub-Committee of the British Iron and Steel Federation, 1933; Davy medallist, Royal Society, 1936; died, 1938.
Publications: include: Coal and its Scientific Uses (Longmans & Co, London, 1918); Flame and Combustion in Gases with Donald Thomas Alfred Townend (Longmans & Co, London, 1927); Gaseous Combustion at High Pressures: being mainly an account of the researches carried out in the high pressure gas research laboratories of the Imperial College of Science & Technology with Dudley M Newitt, Donald T A Townend (Longmans & Co, London, 1929); Coal: its constitution and uses with Godfrey Wilfred Himus (Longmans & Co, London, 1936).