opened in 1911, but this came far too late for Robert. Even so Robert had
developed an early interest in chemistry. It was the inspired appointment of
William H. Pryce Jones as Science Master
20 by Lester-Garland in 1898, and
encouragement by an elder brother—certainly Austen, that fostered Robert’s
interest.
The difficulties that the natural sciences had encountered in the college—
electric light and power were not available to the laboratories until 1931—
meant that the proper practice of science must have been difficult. Robert
therefore would have shown considerable initiative to have flourished.
However, any inadequacies of Victoria College were more than compensated
Plate 1.3 An early engraving of Victoria College, published in the Illustrated London
News, 29 September 1852
Plate 1.4 Left to right, G. S. Farnell and L. V. Lester-Garland, headmasters of Victoria
College during Robert’s stay.
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developed an early interest in chemistry. It was the inspired appointment of
William H. Pryce Jones as Science Master
20 by Lester-Garland in 1898, and
encouragement by an elder brother—certainly Austen, that fostered Robert’s
interest.
The difficulties that the natural sciences had encountered in the college—
electric light and power were not available to the laboratories until 1931—
meant that the proper practice of science must have been difficult. Robert
therefore would have shown considerable initiative to have flourished.
However, any inadequacies of Victoria College were more than compensated
Plate 1.3 An early engraving of Victoria College, published in the Illustrated London
News, 29 September 1852
Plate 1.4 Left to right, G. S. Farnell and L. V. Lester-Garland, headmasters of Victoria
College during Robert’s stay.
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1 Robert Le Rossignol
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