Background
The son of Edmund Ronalds, a London merchant, and his wife Eliza, daughter of James Anderson, Doctor of Laws, and nephew of Sir Francis Ronalds, he was born in London in 1819.
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Edmund Ronalds
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After leaving school, he studied successively at Giessen, where he graduated Doctor of Philosophy, at Jena, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Paris.
Career
In 1840 Ronalds returned to England, and held the lectureships in chemistry successively at Saint Mary"s Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. In 1849 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the Queen"s College, Galway. He was secretary of the Chemical Society from 1848 to 1850, and edited the first two volumes of its Quarterly Journal for 1849 and 1850.
Ronalds resigned his chair at Galway in 1856, in order to take over the Bonnington chemical works, where the raw products of Edinburgh"s gas works were dealt with.
In a letter to Sir Francis Ronalds he wrote in 1858 that he was ignored as a tradesman by the savants of Edinburgh. In 1878 Ronalds retired from business, and set up a private research-laboratory in Edinburgh.
