Sir John Conroy, 3rd Baronet, FRS (16 August 1845 – 15 December 1900) was an English analytical chemist. Conroy was born in

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, west London, the son of Sir Edward Conroy, 2nd Baronet (1809–1869) and Lady Alicia Conroy. He was descended from the Ó Maolconaire family of

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. The family had been the hereditary Ollamhs to the O'Connor Kings of Connacht. He was descended from Maoilin Ó Maolchonaire who was the last recognised Chief of the Sept.Edmund Curtis, 'The O'Maolchonaire Family: Unpublished Letters from Sir Edward Conry, Bart., to H.F. Hoare, Esq., 1864' in Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 19, No. 3/4, (1941) He was educated at Eton College and then

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, also the college of his father, where he read

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, gaining a first class degree in 1868. His tutor was the chemical kinetics pioneer

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FRS. He lived mostly with his mother at Arborfield Grange in

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until 1880. His scientific interests were in analytical chemistry, especially optical

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s. He worked mainly in a laboratory at Christ Church in Oxford. He had teaching posts at Keble College (1880–90), and Balliol College and

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(1886–1900). He worked at the Balliol-Trinity Laboratories with Sir Harold Hartley and others. In 1890, he became a Fellow of Balliol College. In 1891, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Conroy's religious leanings were High Church and he was involved with the English Church Union. From 1897, he was treasurer of the

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in Oxford. Conroy never married and died in Rome. His baronetcy became extinct as a result.

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1845 births 1900 deaths People from Kensington People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford English physical chemists Analytical chemists Conroy, John, 3rd Baronet Fellows of the Royal Society {{UK-chemist-stub