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Robert Warington

Robert Warington (7 September 1807 – 17 November 1867) was an English chemist considered the driving force behind the creation of the world's first enduring chemistry society, The Chemical Society of London, which later became the Royal Society of Chemistry. He convened the Society's first meeting in 1841 and served as its Secretary for ten years.

The third son of Thomas Warington, a ship victualler, Robert entered Merchant Taylors' school in 1818. In November 1822 he was articled for five years to John Thomas Cooper, a lecturer in the medical schools of Aldersgate Street and Webb Street, and a manufacturer of potassium, sodium, iodine, and other then rare chemical substances. He was subsequently a chemist with Messrs Truman, Hanbury & Buxton and, from 1842 until his death in 1867, chemical operator at the Society of Apothecaries.