Researching John Coulson
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Coulson on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Coulson and the Coulson Family History
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Coulson Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called John Coulson
John Coulson
John Metcalfe Coulson (born 13 December 1910 in Dudley, died 6 January 1990)was a British chemical engineering academic particularly known for co-writing a textbook on chemical engineering with Jack Richardson (published in 1954), which became an established series of texts now known as Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering.
John Coulson was the twin brother of Charles Alfred Coulson, the noted chemist. Their father was Alfred Coulson (who became Principal of Dudley Technical College) and their mother was Annie Sincere Hancock, a school headmistress.
He went to Clifton College. He did his first degree at Christ's College, Cambridge, then a postgraduate course in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College followed by research, achieving a PhD in 1935. He joined the academic staff, achieving the status of Reader. In 1954 he became the first head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University, where he remained until his retirement in 1975, apart from a secondment to Heriot-Watt University during its formation of a separate department of chemical engineering.
Coulson married twice, first to Dora (died 1961) with whom he had two sons, Anthony and Simon, and then in 1965 to Christine, who survived him.
He was awarded the George E. Davis Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1973, and he received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in the same year.
Source: John Coulson, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJohn Coulson (diplomat)
Sir John Eltringham Coulson (1909–1997) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Sweden and secretary-general of EFTA.
Coulson was born 13 September 1909. He was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1932. He served at Bucharest, Paris, New York and Washington, DC, before being appointed Ambassador to Sweden 1960–1963. He was then Deputy Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office 1963–1965, Chief of Administration of HM Diplomatic Service briefly from January to September 1965, and Secretary-General of the European Free Trade Association 1965–1972. He died 15 November 1997.
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