Former Northampton leather technology lecturer dies
25/11/2015
Best known as senior lecturer in the principles of leather manufacture, the chemistry of vegetable tanning agents, the manufacture of heavy leathers and laboratory analysis, Colin Jones originally joined the leather department at the then Northampton Technical College in the mid-1950s under David Woodroffe. His career developed as he worked together with John Sharphouse, and later when the Northampton leather department and Leathersellers College in London amalgamated in 1978.
He continued to work in leather education until the mid-1990s and even after his retirement retained a strong interest both in the leather sector and in the people he had worked with over the years. He was co-author of books on vegetable tannage, and was author of five technical papers on vegetable tanning agents and vegetable tanned leathers published in World Leather over a number of years.
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