Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton

Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton was a British chemist, born at Glyn Cywarch near Talsarnau in Gwynedd, Wales, on 11 October 1886, the fourth son of Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton. He was educated at Eton College and then read chemistry at University College London under Sir William Ramsay, graduating in 1908 with first-class honours. He worked as an instructor at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, where his research was devoted largely to nitrogen oxides, and in 1913 he joined the laboratory of Walther Nernst in Berlin. During the First World War he served with the Coldstream Guards and was seconded to the Department of Explosives Supply, where he did research into munitions. After the war he studied the vapour pressure of metals before turning to combustion, and he pioneered the use of liquid methane as a fuel. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1925 and died on 7 September 1959.