Robert Stephen Rintoul Robert Stephen Rintoul Robert Stephen Rintoul (1787 – 22 April 1858) was a British journalist. He was born at Tibbermore, Perthshire, in 1787, and educated at the Aberdalgie parish school. After serving his apprenticeship to the printing trade he became the printer and subsequently the editor of the "Dundee Advertiser". In 1826 he went to London where he was editor of "The Atlas" before, in July 1828 with the assistance of friends, founding "The Spectator". In this publication Rintoul strongly supported the Reform Bill, and to him was due the catchphrase "The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the
William Rintoul William Rintoul William Rintoul OBE (1870 – 25 August 1936) was a British chemist and President of the Faraday Society between 1934 and 1936. Rintoul was born in Glasgow and attended Anderson's College there. He then lectured and worked as an assistant in analytical chemistry at the college. In 1891, he moved to London to assume a position of chemist at a paint factory and in 1894 moved to the Royal Gunpowder Factory. There, he later became the chemist-in-charge of the nitroglycerine production and eventually the chief chemist. Together with his friend Robert Robertson, Rintoul invented a process and designed