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Henry Davis Pochin
b.1824
d.1895
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Name Henry Davis Pochin
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1824
Marriage to Agnes Heap
Death[1] 1895
Reference Number Q5720219 (Wikidata)


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Henry Davis Pochin (25 May 1824 – 28 August 1895) was an English 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.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Henry Davis Pochin, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.