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- Arthur_Duckham abstract "Sir Arthur McDougall Duckham GBE, KCB (8 July 1879 - 14 February 1932) was one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its first President.Duckham was born in Blackheath, London. He became a trainee gas engineer, while also taking evening classes at King's College, London, and was appointed assistant superintendent of a London gasworks. Along with Harold Woodall he formed a company Woodall-Duckham which developed the continuous vertical retort for manufacturing gas from coal. He married Maud Peppercorn, daughter of Arthur Douglas Peppercorn and they had three children.During the First World War he was involved in the supply of coal-derived chemicals for use in the manufacture of explosives, becoming Deputy Controller of Munitions Supply in 1915. He performed a number of other executive and advisor roles, notably Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Ministry of Munitions, which resulted in the him being knighted with the Order of the Bath (KCB). He also received the Légion d'honneur (Cross of Officer).After the war his business flourished, expanding into other areas of chemical engineering. He joined the Institution of Civil Engineers (which then included all non-military engineers) in 1918, but chaired the committee which created the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and became its first President.In 1928 he led a British trade mission to Australia, and following this received a further knighthood, GBE.He died 14 February 1932 at Ashtead, Surrey.".
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