John Reader Hosking

John Reader Hosking (11 July 1896 – 14 October 1946) was a New Zealand natural products chemist.

John Reader Hosking
Born(1896-07-11)11 July 1896
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died14 October 1946(1946-10-14) (aged 50)
Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, England

Biography

The son of John Henry Hosking, a judge, Hosking was born in Dunedin in 1896.[1][2] He was part of the 5th (Wellington) Regiment in the Samoan Advance Party at the outbreak of World War I.[3][4] He rejoined the effort via the Australian forces in Sydney as an Acting Bombardier.[5]

He gained a PhD from Auckland University College, graduating in 1927.[6]

In 1930 Hosking returned to New Zealand from Europe and started working at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under Ernest Marsden.[7]

Hosking won the Hector Medal, the highest award of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1937,[8][9] the award was forwarded to him in the United Kingdom, where he had returned.[10][11]

Hosking died on 14 October 1946 at his home in Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire.[12]

gollark: Not that somehow returning everyone to monke would fix environmental issues so much as make them happen slower and make people unable to do anything about them.
gollark: You seemed to be suggesting it was anarchoprimitivism before.
gollark: Possibly air pollution too.
gollark: It also isn't a very stable equilibrium when people know what "farming" and "tool use" are.
gollark: Hunter gathering also can't support anywhere near as many people as modern agriculture, so that's a consideration under some ethical systems.

References
  1. "Research work". Evening Post. 6 July 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  2. "Births". Otago Witness. 16 July 1896. p. 29. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  3. "Auckland War Memorial Museum - Hosking-John-Reader-World-War-I,-1914-1918". Muse.aucklandmuseum.com. 15 August 1914. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. "Hosking, John Reader - WW1 1/039 - Army". Ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  5. "Details". Aif.adfa.edu.au. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  6. "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Hi–Hy". Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  7. "Personal items". Evening Post. 17 December 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  8. "Royal Society awards". New Zealand Herald. 29 May 1937. p. 16. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  9. "Recipients – Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  10. "Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand [electronic resource]". Rsnz.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  11. "Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand [electronic resource]". Rsnz.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  12. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London: Principal Probate Registry. 1946. p. 564.



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