This article is about the Scottish industrialist. For his grandson, see Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet. For the English landowner and politician, see Charles Tennant (politician).
Charles Tennant
Born
3 May 1768
Laigh Corton, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died
1 October 1838(1838-10-01) (aged 70)
Occupation(s)
Businessperson, chemist, industrialist
Parent(s)
John Tennant Margaret McClure
Family
Tennant
Charles Tennant (3 May 1768 – 1 October 1838) was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He discovered bleaching powder and founded an industrial dynasty.
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ship owner William Burns, historian Hector Clare Cameron Peter Clouston Charles Connell, shipbuilder Very Rev James Craik, moderator for 1863/4 William...
middle of the century, but it was the discovery of bleaching powder by CharlesTennant that spurred the creation of the first great chemical industrial enterprise...
explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Tennant was born in Russell Square, London, the second daughter of CharlesTennant and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier...
merchant, a brother to industrialist CharlesTennant and a friend of Robbie Burns. Alexander was the fourth son of John Tennant (1725-1810) and Margaret McClure...
Emma Margaret Tennant was born in Peeblesshire, of Scottish and English descent, the sixth daughter and eleventh child of Sir CharlesTennant, 1st Baronet...
beginning of his so-called 'golden' period. Lady Tennant was once owned by the nineteenth century violinist, Charles Philippe Lafont, contemporary of Niccolò...
grandparents were Emma Winsloe and Sir CharlesTennant, 1st Baronet. Her uncle was Harold Tennant, and her aunt, Margot Tennant was the wife of Prime Minister...
near Paris, where it was produced. Scottish chemist and industrialist CharlesTennant proposed in 1798 a solution of calcium hypochlorite as an alternative...
bleaching powder, used for water treatment and as a bleaching agent. CharlesTennant and Charles Macintosh developed an industrial process in the late 18th century...
works established by James Muspratt in Liverpool and Flint, and by CharlesTennant near Glasgow became some of the largest in the world. Muspratt's Liverpool...
industrial expansion began with the establishment of a chemical works by CharlesTennant on the newly opened Monkland Canal at nearby St. Rollox in 1799, which...
Born at The Glen, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Harold Tennant was a younger son of Sir CharlesTennant, 1st Baronet, by his first wife Emma, daughter of Richard...
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