Leonard Chapman
Leonard Chapman (1853-1921)
1922 Obituary [1]
LEONARD CHAPMAN was born in London on 25th September 1853, and was educated in Switzerland and Germany.
When a partner in the firm of Shuttleworth and Chapman, with whom he was trained, he designed the "Boussa," one of the first stern paddle-wheel boats to ply on the Nile; also at this time he designed the yacht "Eros" for the late Lord Rothschild.
Among his mechanical inventions may be mentioned a screw-cock for oxygen cylinders and the Chapman and Knowles Graphite Lubricator.
Graphite and its application to the lubrication of machinery was the branch in which Mr. Chapman specialized.
His death took place on the 24th August 1921, in his sixty-eighth year.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1898.