BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 50, 2025
Morris, Peter, “Letter to the Editor: New Gravestone for John Newlands Unveiled,”, Bull. Hist. Chem., 2025, 50, 75
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2025v050p075
Abstract/Description: John Newlands (1837-1898) is famous for his development of a periodic law of the elements in 1864, five years before Dimitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer. He was buried in West Norwood Cemetery, near Dulwich, but his gravestone had fallen into a state of disrepair. His descendant Peter Newlands set up a fundraising campaign to restore it, to which the Royal Society of Chemistry via the Historical Group contributed. Assistance was also given by the Heritage of London Trust. As part of the restoration project, the stone was refaced and the memorial lettering cut and lead infilled to match the existing lettering. The new gravestone was unveiled on 9 September 2024 by Peter Newlands and myself on behalf of the group.