Theophilus Redwood (9 April 1806 – 5 March 1892) was a

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who was one of the founding members of the

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. He was born in

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. In 1820 he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Charles Vachell, a surgeon-apothecary in Cardiff. Vachell had married Redwood's eldest half-sister Margaret in 1811. Redwood translated

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’s ''Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik'', and adapted it to English practice. This was the first textbook of pharmacy. The result was ''Practical Pharmacy: The Arrangements, Apparatus, and Manipulation of the Pharmaceutical Shop and Laboratory'', by Francis Mohr and Theophilus Redwood, Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, London, 1849. William Procter, Jr. edited an American edition for publisher

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of Philadelphia. Procter’s ''Practical Pharmacy'' was published in 1849. He was also Secretary of the Cavendish Society (1846–72) and Vice-President of the Chemical Society. Theophilius Redwood was never President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, but was President of the British Pharmaceutical Conferences in Glasgow and Plymouth, 1876 and 77. He was also President of the International Pharmaceutical conference held in London in 1881. After his retirement in 1885, he received the title of Emeritus Professor by unanimous vote of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society. He moved back to the family home in Boverton, which he had inherited, but still continued to lecture. His last public appearance was appropriately at the Pharmaceutical Conference in Cardiff in 1891, as he himself remarked, a very different Cardiff from the one he had left in 1823. He died at home on 5 March 1892 and is buried in the Llantwit Major churchyard. The Theophilus Redwood Award is given by

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to a leading

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scientist who is also an outstanding communicator. The Redwood Building of

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, home to the Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, is named in his honour.

Family

He was married to Charlotte Elizabeth Moron, daughter of T N R Moron who owned a large pharmaceutical company in

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. Their eight children included

Thomas Boverton Redwood Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood FRSE FIC FCS FGS FRSA MIME (1846–1919) was a 19th-century British chemical engineer remembered as a pioneer of the petroleum industry. An early car-collector and enthusiast, he was also one of the first to i ...

first of the Redwood baronets.

References

External links

Biography of Redwood
Welsh School of Pharmacy {{DEFAULTSORT:Redwood, Theophilus People from the Vale of Glamorgan 1806 births 1892 deaths British pharmacists