Sir John Brunner
British chemical industrialist, politician
Died when: 77 years 143 days (928 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Baronet, DL (8 February 1842 – 1 July 1919) was a British chemical industrialist and Liberal Party politician.At Hutchinson's alkali works in Widnes he rose to the position of general manager.
There he met Ludwig Mond, with whom he later formed a partnership to create the chemical company Brunner Mond & Co., initially making alkali by the Solvay process.
As a Member of Parliament he represented Northwich, Cheshire, in 1885–1886 and then from 1887 to 1910.He was a paternalistic employer and as a politician supported Irish Home Rule, trade unions, free trade, welfare reforms and, leading up to the First World War, a more sympathetic stance towards Germany.
Brunner was a prominent Freemason, and a generous benefactor to the towns in his constituency and to the University of Liverpool.
He is the great grandfather of the Duchess of Kent.