Which glucose drink was invented by a Newcastle chemist, William Walker Hunt, to aid his daughter's recovery from jaundice?
Lucozade Lucozade Lucozade is a soft drink manufactured by the Japanese company Suntory and marketed as a range of sports and energy drinks. Created as "Glucozade" in the UK in 1927 by a Newcastle pharmacist, William Walker Hunter (trading as W. Owen & Son), it was acquired by the British pharmaceutical company Beecham's in 1938 and sold as an energy drink for the sick as Lucozade. The company's advertising slogan was "Lucozade aids recovery". A glucose–water solution, the product was sold until 1983 as a carbonated, slightly orange-flavoured drink in a glass bottle wrapped in yellow cellophane. Pharmacists sold it, children
Alfred William Hunt daughters, Violet Hunt, was known as a novelist. His niece, Jessie MacGregor has paintings in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. He is buried with his wife and daughter at Brookwood Cemetery. Alfred William Hunt Alfred William Hunt, (15 November 18303 May 1896), was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter. Hunt was born in Liverpool in 1830. He began to paint while at the Liverpool Collegiate School. However at his father's suggestion he went in 1848 to Corpus Christi College, Oxford to study classics. His career there was distinguished; he won the Newdigate Prize