Background
Freshwater was born in Brewood where he attended the Grammar School.
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Don Freshwater
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Freshwater was born in Brewood where he attended the Grammar School. He gained a degree in chemistry at Birmingham University in 1944, then took a course in Fuel Technology at the University of Sheffield, a conversion course to chemical engineering at Loughborough College and a Doctor of Philosophy at Birmingham in 1955.
Career
Hired as a chemist he worked for the Ministry of Fuel and Power on industrial coke, which led him to take courses and convert to chemical engineering, working for Adjusted Present Value and Midland Tar Distillers before going to Birmingham to lecture and take his Doctor of Philosophy. In 1957 at the age of only 33, he was appointed the head of the department of chemical engineering at Loughborough College of Advanced Technology, where he remained for 30 years, as the college changed to a university and his department grew in stature. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1996, and wrote a book on the history of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). In 1986 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 1990 received an honorary degree from Loughborough University, the first to one of its own staff
He served as a Parish Councillor in Mountsorrel and was Chairman of her Majesty the Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations in the village.
