Sir John Bennet Lawes
Sir John Bennet Lawes – 1814-1900 Sir John Bennet Lawes was born at Rothamsted Manor in 1814. He was educated at Eton and Oxford but left without a degree. He turned one of the bedrooms in the manor into a laboratory and conducted experiments on fertilisers using bones, guano, potash and superphosphates. In 1843 he