See also
Husband:
Edmund George Vincent PERCIVAL (1907-1951)
Wife:
Ethel Elizabeth KEMPSON (1906-1997)
Children:
Marriage:
14 Jul 1934
St Pauls, Walsall1
Name:
Edmund George Vincent PERCIVAL2
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
10 Nov 1907
2 Baptist Walk, Hinckley, Leicester2
Address: 2 Baptist Walk, Hinckley, Leicester
Occupation:
University Lecturer, Research Chemist
Child Count:
2
Marriage Count:
1
Title:
Dr
Education:
1918 (age 11)
King Edward VII Grammar School, Coalville; Coalville
1918 - 1925
Education:
1925 (age 18)
Birmingham University; Birmingham
Graduation:
1928 (age 21)
Birmingham University
1st Classs Honours in Chemistry
Death:
27 Sep 1951 (age 43)
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh3
Cause: Hydro-cyanic acid poisoning
Burial:
1 Oct 1951
Liberton Cemetery, Edinburgh4
Name:
Ethel Elizabeth KEMPSON5
Sex:
Female
Name Suffix:
Betty
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
3 Jan 1906
75 King Edward Road, Coventry5
Residence:
2 Apr 1911 (age 5)
102 Kingsway, Coventry6
Address: 102 Kingsway, Coventry
Residence:
1934 (age 27-28)
269 Birmingham Road, Walsall
Address: 269 Birmingham Road, Walsall
Residence:
1937 (age 30-31)
126 Blackford Avenue, Edinburgh
Address: 126 Blackford Avenue, Edinburgh
Residence:
1963 (age 56-57)
20 Oak Tree Close, Virginia Water GU25 4JF
Address: 20 Oak Tree Close, Virginia Water GU25 4JF
Residence:
95 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh
Address: 95 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh
Occupation:
Research Chemist
Title:
Dr
Marriage Count:
2
Death:
16 Apr 1997 (age 91)
Surrey
Burial:
Wokingham Crematorium, ashes interred at Moorhouse, near Kelso.
Name:
Sheila Morag PERCIVAL
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
26 Nov 1937
Edinburgh
Death:
22 Jul 2005 (age 67)
Ilfracombe
Cause: Lung cancer
Name:
John Kempson PERCIVAL
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
After graduating, he went to McGill University in Montreal for a year to do research on wood pulp. On returning, he worked for Sir Norman Haworth at Birmingham University on the structure of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) - for which Haworth won the Nobel Prize in 1937. According to his wife, Elizabeth, nee Kempson, he was always bitter about the lack of recognition he got for his work in this area. It was always thus in academic circles.
He wrote a book - Structural Carbohydrate Chemistry, which was first published in 1950.
It was updated by his wife, Elizabeth, and republished in 1962.
Known as Elizabeth or Betty
EGVP EEK Marriage Certificate.
EGVP Birth certificate.
EGVP Death Certificate.
Photo of EGVP and Emily Holloway Grave.
EEK Birth Certificate.
1911 Census.