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Authorised form of nameBessemer; Sir; Henry (1813 - 1898)
Dates1813 - 1898
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCharlton, Hertfordshire, England
Date of birth19 January 1813
Place of deathDenmark Hill, London
Date of death15 March 1898
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Norwood cemetery, Surrey
ActivityCareer:
In his father's business as a manufacturer of gold chains, and type founder; white metal art work trader, London (1830); invented a perforated die (1833); produced plumbago pencils; patented an amalgum of cast iron and steel, for gun manufacture; established a steel works, Sheffield, making guns and rails
Honours:
Kt 1879
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election12/06/1879
RelationshipsSon of Anthony Bessemer; married (1833) Anne, daughter of Richard Allen of Amersham
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 06 November 1880
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/1801316
CodeNA1539
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
M/123Bessemer Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute1873
EC/1879/04Bessemer, Sir Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/12/120Letter from Henry Bessemer, Denmark Hill, to Warren de la Rue26 June 1880
NLB/16/323Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons16 March 1898
NLB/16/433Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir I Lowthian Bell, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1898
IM/000356Bessemer, Sir HenrySeptember 1999
IM/000357Bessemer, Sir Henrynd
VF/05Portrait of Sir Henry Bessemer by Sir Leslie Ward06 November 1880
MC/11/392Letter from Henry Bessemer, Denmark Hill, Surrey, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]21 June 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/97Letter from Henry Bessemer, Denmark Hill, Surrey, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]16 October 1880
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
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