A. E. H. (Alfred Edwin Howard) Tutton

Born in Cheshire in 1864, Alfred Edwin Howard Tutton left school young and began working in local offices, while continuing his education through evening classes. A scholarship took him to the Royal College of Science in London, where he studied chemistry, physics, and geology and went on to teach chemistry before later serving as a school inspector.

Alongside his official career, he carried out meticulous research in crystallography. He became especially known for his studies of double sulphates and related salts, a group now widely called Tutton's salts, and for the precision instruments and methods he developed to measure crystal properties.

Tutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899, a sign of how highly his scientific work was regarded. He also wrote books including Crystals, helping bring a complex subject to a wider readership. He died in 1938, remembered as a careful experimental scientist whose name remains part of crystallography.