Henry Davis Pochin (25 May 1824 – 28 August 1895)[2] was a British industrial chemist. He invented a process that enabled white soap to be made and a means of using china clay to create better quality paper. He owned several china clay pits in Cornwall, and a mine at Tredegar in South Wales, and was briefly a Liberal Member of Parliament. His wife was Agnes Pochin who was a leading suffragist.
^Crawford, Elizabeth (2004). "Pochin [née Heap], Agnes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56284. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^H. T. Milliken (1975). The Road to Bodnant: The Story Behind the Foundation of the Famous North Wales Garden. Morten. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-85972-021-2.
Henry Davis Pochin (25 May 1824 – 28 August 1895) was a British industrial chemist. He invented a process that enabled white soap to be made and a means...
Pochin (1909–1990), British physician HenryPochin (1824–1895), British industrial chemist and politician Juliette Pochin (born 1971), Welsh classically trained...
married his business partner HenryPochin. The marriage took place at the Presbyterian Church in Manchester in 1852. Pochin wrote in 1855 a frequently overlooked...
A friend of HenryPochin of Bodnant, Higson developed a garden at Plas Madoc which may have had input from, or been influenced by Henry Ernest Milner...
(Bodnant Garden, Conwy) 80 acres (32 ha) garden, first planted in 1874 by HenryPochin, on the edge of Snowdonia Bodysgallen Hall House, Gardens, Parkland 2008...
estate was bought in the 1870s by HenryPochin who engaged Edward Milner to design the gardens around the house. After Pochin died the gardens were further...
century walled garden and associated with Lady Aberconway, daughter of HenryPochin. Group value with the listed nearby buildings. II PGW(C)31(FLT) Gwysaney...
Embothrium, Eucryphia and Rhododendron forrestii. The garden's founder, Henry Davis Pochin, was a Leicestershire-born Victorian industrial chemist who acquired...
1860–1865 Succeeded by Michael Bass Walter Meller Preceded by Walter Meller HenryPochin Member of Parliament for Stafford 1869–1880 With: Reginald Talbot 1869–1874...
Parliament for Stafford In office 11 July 1865 – 13 May 1869 Serving with HenryPochin (1868–1869) Michael Bass (1865–1868) Preceded by Thomas Sidney Thomas...
Governor of Victoria in Australia. Talbot was born in London, the third son of Henry, Viscount Ingestre (later 3rd Earl Talbot and then 18th Earl of Shrewsbury)...
members for the library on the committee for the Pochin No. 1 Pit. (The name 'Pochin' comes from HenryPochin, an English industrial chemist, who was one of...
Elizabeth Pochin. Her brothers were the Liberal politicians Henry D McLaren and Francis McLaren. In 1907 she married, as his second wife, Sir Henry Norman...
Arthur Edward Herbert, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire 1849, 76 28 August – HenryPochin, English industrial chemist, mine-owner and politician, founder of Bodnant...
chemist Henry Davis Pochin, who had already bought Bodnant. The late 19th century terraced garden with yew topiary, was designed by HenryPochin's daughter...
Election declared void 16 March 1869. The two members were replaced by Henry Master Feilden and Edward Kenworthy Hornby respectively on 30 March 1869...
Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles, first husband of the Queen, is the son of Derek Henry Parker-Bowles (who assumed his mother's maiden surname of Bowles), grandson...
in 1940. A three-floored classroom building is named after Major Harold Pochin, Headmaster from 1920 to 1946.[citation needed] Other buildings include...
was born in Haverfordwest and killed at the Battle of Waterloo. Juliette Pochin (born 1971), a Welsh classically trained mezzo-soprano singer, born in Haverfordwest...
Dresser for the owner, his solicitor, Hiram Abiff Owston (1830–1905). Henry Davis Pochin the manufacturing chemist who later owned the Bodnant Estate (now...
Toby Spence (born 1969), tenor Kate Royal (born 1979), soprano Juliette Pochin (born 1971), mezzo-soprano William Shimell (born 1952), baritone Rebecca...
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