LORD MOULTON DEAD

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 192, 10 May 1921, Page 6

LORD MOULTON DEAD

MAN WHO MOBILISED BRITISH SCIENCE. Lord Moulton of Bank, a Lord of Ap-peal-in-Ordinary and the man who in the war mobilised Britain’s regiments of science, died in his sleep nt his house, 57 Onslow Square, London, on March 9, in his 77th year. Son of a Wesleyan minister, he had a brilliant and a many-sided career. At Cambridge, Mr. John Fletcher Moulton, as ho then was, gained great distinction in mathematics and science. He was called to the Bar in 1874. Almost at once he' jumped to the front, and it was not long before he became a recognised authority on the law relating to patents and inventions. He took silk in 1885, the year that he was elected M.P. for Clapham. He was afterwards member for S. Hackney and for the Launceston division of Cornwall. Tn time his word in matters concerning patents came to be regarded as law. It is said of him that he used the phonograph a good deal for dictating "opinions” on cases submitted for his consideration. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1906, and a Lord of •Appeal in 1912, when ho was made a baron for life. Ho had a deep knowledge of chemistry; and for his electrical researches was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. His first war work was bo extemporise an aniline dye industry in Britain. From that task he was called in the early days of the war to the DirectorGeneralship Of Explosive Supplies. Dospite his 70 years when he went to that post, the results he achieved made him w W<lf'fhe great''figures of the war. With ,l The ending of hostilities ho returned to the dyes business, and was chairman of the British Dyestuffs Corporation.