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William Inglis Clark FRSE (1855-1932) was a Scottish pharmaceutical chemist. He is also remembered as a keen amateur mountaineer. Clark invented a neutral encapsulation of foul-tasting medicines. As a chemist and keen amateur photographer he also invented a very early colour photographic process in 1909, his subject matter usually stemming from his love of mountains. His early colour photographs appeared from 1909 in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal. ==Life== He was born in Bombay in India, the son of Rev Thomas Grieve Clark,〔https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-William-Inglis-Clark/6000000033082945258〕 minister of the Scots Church, on 4 June 1855. His mother, Margaret Grace Inglis, died of cholera in 1856 at which point he returned to Britain with his older brother, Thomas S Inglis Clark. He was then educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh. He studied Chemistry at Edinburgh University and was the first people to receive a doctorate (DSc) before the age of 21. He then (1871) received a senior post in the firm of Duncan Flockhart & Co. He rose to be a full partner in the firm.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 At the end of the 19th century he is recorded as being the first owner of a motor-car in Scotland, an Arrol-Johnston dog-cart. This resulted in his having the first Scottish Registration plate: S1. He later sold this number to Lord Kingsburgh, obtaining the number S2 for his own use. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1910. His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Cargill Gilston Knott.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He died at home, 1 Belgrave Place in Edinburgh on 21 December 1932. He is buried in the south-west section of Liberton Cemetery. The stone lies just east of the central roundel. It has been vandalised and is currently (2015) lying on its back. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Inglis Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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