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Authorised form of nameRoberts-Austen; Sir; William Chandler (1843 - 1902)
Other forms of nameWilliam Chandler Roberts-
Roberts, William Chandler
Other forms of surnameAusten
Dates1843 - 1902
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKennington, Surrey, England
Date of birth03 March 1843
Place of deathThe Royal Mint, London
Date of death22/11/1902
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Canterbury, Kent
Research fieldMetallurgy
ActivityEducation:
Royal School of Mines, London
Career:
Assistant to the Master of the Mint; Chemist of the Royal Mint (1869); Professor of Metallurgy, School of Mines (1880); Chemist and Assayer to the Mint (1882-1902)
Honours:
CB 1890; KCB 1899
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1875
RSActivityLectures:
Bakerian 1896
RelationshipsSon of George Roberts; assumed names of Chandler and Roberts-Austen at the request of an uncle (1885)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 192-198 signed by T E T
References:
Sir John Craig, 'The Royal Society and the Royal Mint' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 156-167
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/43493574
CodeNA6451
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/8/96Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society14 July 1893
EC/1875/29Roberts-Austen, Sir William Chandler: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/377/1/9Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Royal Mint, to [William Fletcher] Barrett 7 October 1890
MS/743/1/158Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, The Royal Mint, to [John Hall] Gladstone11 February 1898
MS/743/1/122Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Chilworth, to [John Hall] Gladstone12 January 1890
MS/743/1/161Letter from William Chandler Robert-Austen, The Royal Mint, to [John Hall] Gladstone 16 February 1900
NLB/18/40Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] 4 January 1899
NLB/4/491Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society16 June 1890
NLB/2/237Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1888
NLB/2/258Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Harrison & Sons14 March 1888
NLB/2/808Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen10 November 1888
NLB/2/793Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society7 November 1888
NLB/6/1106Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen25 October 1892
NLB/6/7Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1892
NLB/10/258Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society1 November 1894
NLB/6/1017Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen4 October 1892
NLB/6/994Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society29 September 1892
NLB/5/362Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 May 1891
NLB/11/218Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen15 May 1895
NLB/7/486Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society1 March 1893
NLB/5/904Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society 12 November 1891
NLB/5/913Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]16 November 1891
NLB/7/790Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen25 April 1893
NLB/8/73Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]12 July 1893
NLB/7/789Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W Bayley Marshall, Richmond Hill, Birmingham26 April 1893
NLB/10/433Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen23 November 1894
NLB/10/280Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster5 November 1894
NLB/11/76Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society11 April 1895
NLB/8/663Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1893
NLB/10/801Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society7 February 1895
NLB/11/524Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society16 July 1895
NLB/20/101Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society31 January 1900
NLB/13/707Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1896
NLB/11/107Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1895
NLB/11/153Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Thomas Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society3 May 1895
NLB/11/165Copy letter from Herbret Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Fellow of the Royal Society7 May 1895
NLB/11/401Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt]21 June 1895
NLB/9/711Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society3 July 1894
NLB/13/378Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society6 August 1896
NLB/13/379Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society10 August 1896
NLB/13/371Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons5 July [August] 1896
NLB/12/542Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden, E.C.10 March 1896
NLB/12/618Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs West, Newman & Company, 54 Hatton Garden, E.C.24 March 1896
NLB/13/281Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons21 July 1896
NLB/13/260Copy letter from Michael Foster and Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society15 July 1896
NLB/13/316Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Berthaud Frères, 9 Rue Cadet, Paris24 July 1896
NLB/12/492Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society28 February 1896
NLB/12/427Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Newton & Company, 3 Fleet Street, E.C.18 February 1896
NLB/12/735Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Harrison & Sons23 April 1896
NLB/13/762Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Chandler] Roberts-Austen20 November 1896
NLB/12/426Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Drake & Gorham18 February 1896
NLB/12/403Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society14 February 1896
RR/15/51Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on the Bakerian lecture 'The crytalline structure of metals' by James Alfred Ewing and Walter RosenhainJuly 1900
NLB/14/275Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1897
NLB/14/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society3 March 1897
RR/13/165Letter from Thomas Andrews, on his paper 'On micro-physical structure of pure gold and micro-segregation in gold alloys' to William Arthur Rucker, Secretary of the Royal Society10 February 1898
NLB/18/240Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society10 February 1899
NLB/22/510Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [Chandler] Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society24 May 1901
NLB/15/495Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society14 October 1897
NLB/15/703Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society 19 November 1897
NLB/16/138Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society8 February 1898
NLB/18/672Copy letter from Michael Foster, to [Sir William] Roberts-Austen [20 April 1899]
NLB/18/209Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir W C Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society7 February 1899
NLB/15/671Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1897
NLB/16/496Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Andrews, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1898
NLB/16/597Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society[5] May 1898
NLB/16/788Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Morgan & Kidd6 June 1898
NLB/16/771Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Morgan & kidd3 June 1898
NLB/16/475Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society20 April 1898
NLB/16/748Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Morgan & Kidd, Richmond1 June 1898
NLB/17/345Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt], Sir Andrew Noble, Sir John Wolfe Wolfe-Barrey, Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Dr Thomas Edward Thorpe, [Fellows of the Royal Society]15 October 1898
NLB/19/71Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to H Jackson 13 June 1899
NLB/19/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/19/16Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/19/581Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society4 November 1899
NLB/19/543Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]28 October 1899
NLB/19/478Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Roberts Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]11 October 1899
NLB/18/654Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Sir William Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society17 April 1899
NLB/19/472Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society, Hotel zur Rose, Wiesbaden, Germany10 October 1899
NLB/20/682Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr J K Rose15 June 1900
NLB/22/196Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [Chandler] Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society20 March 1901
NLB/20/523Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen14 May 1900
NLB/24/333Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1902
NLB/21/239Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society8 October 1900
NLB/22/10Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society11 February 1901
NLB/22/361Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [William Chandler] Roberts Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1901
NLB/21/621Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society19 December 1900
NLB/22/358Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir [William Chandler] Roberts Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society1 May 1901
NLB/22/602Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [Chandler] Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1901
NLB/24/78Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society25 February 1902
NLB/25/305Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society15 October 1902
NLB/23/1/513Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]25 November 1901
NLB/24/332Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1902
NLB/24/478Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1902
NLB/24/334Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society28 April 1902
NLB/24/35Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society19 February 1902
NLB/24/313Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society24 April 1902
NLB/24/344Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society30 April 1902
NLB/24/242Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1902
NLB/25/398Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Dr T K Rose30 October 1902
NLB/25/348Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen20 October 1902
NLB/24/568Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1902
NLB/25/320Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society16 October 1902
NLB/24/636Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society10 June 1902
NLB/25/573Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 November 1902
RR/8/157Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on an untraced paper by Mr Fawsitt23 April 1879
RR/11/193Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the liquation of metals of the platinum group' by Edward Matthey28 March 1892
RR/10/210Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'On certain mechanical properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen19 March 1888
RR/11/270Letter from William Chandler Roberts Austen, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay to the Secretary of the Royal Society1 June 1893
RR/13/233Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of hydrogen and oxygen by palladium' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields8 January 1898
RR/13/92Referee's report by Charles Thomas Heycock, on a paper 'On the structure of metals, its origin and changes' by M F Osmond and William Chandler Roberts-Austen22 June 1896
RR/12/367Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields9 August 1895
RR/13/102Referee's report by George Matthey, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the diffusion of metals' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen9 March 1896
RR/13/101Referee's report by Thomas Edward Thorpe, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the diffusion of metals' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen2 March 1896
RR/13/230Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields27 July 1897
RR/7/318Referee's report by Henry Enfield Roscoe, on a paper 'On the quantitative analysis of certain alloys by means of the spectroscope' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and William Chandler Roberts-Austen2 February 1874
RR/11/277Letter from William Chandler Roberts Austen, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay to the Secretary of the Royal Society16 August 1893
RR/14/184Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'Gold-aluminium alloys' by Charles Thomas Heycock and Francis Henry Nevillend [November 1899]
MS/743/1/150Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, The Royal Mint, 3 August 1983, to [John Hall] Gladstone3 August 1893
NLB/6/1025Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Robarts-Austen5 October 1892
NLB/5/879Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society9 November 1891
NLB/5/927Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]17 November 1891
NLB/8/645Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, [Fellow of the Royal Society]1 December 1893
NLB/10/732Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Le Directeur, Comptoir Lyon-Alemand, 13 Rue Montmorency, Paris 28 January 1895
NLB/11/108Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to William Henry Preece, Fellow of the Royal Society22 April 1895
NLB/13/21Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society29 May 1896
NLB/13/127Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1896
NLB/13/778Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society23 November 1896
RR/15/146Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'Micro-crystalline structure of platinum' by Thomas Andrews21 December 1901
NLB/14/401Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, Secretary, Royal Society5 March 1897
NLB/15/235Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Richard Tetley Glazebrook, [Fellow of the Royal Society]21 July 1897
NLB/16/461Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Arthur William Rucker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]6 April 1898
NLB/15/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society19 October 1897
NLB/15/712Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society22 November 1897
NLB/17/15Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Morgan & Kidd1 July 1898
NLB/17/549Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society17 November 1898
NLB/21/441Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society19 November 1900
RR/11/271Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts Austen, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay1 June 1893
RR/10/211Letter from William Chandler Roberts-Austen, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'On certain mechanical properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen4 August 1888
RR/15/55Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'An investigation of the spectra of flames resulting from operations in the open hearth and 'basic' bessemer processes' by Walter Noel Hartley and Hugh RamageDecember 1900
NLB/20/390Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Fellow of the Royal Society6 April 1900
RR/11/273Letter from William Chandler Roberts Austen, on a paper 'On the metallurgy of lead' by J H Hannay to the Secretary of the Royal Society6 June 1893
RR/13/93Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'On the structure of metals, its origin and changes' by M F Osmond and William Chandler Roberts-Austen8 July 1896
RR/13/166Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on his paper 'On micro-physical structure of pure gold and micro-segregation in gold alloys' by Thomas Andrews10 May 1897
RR/15/1Referee's report by William Chander Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'An experimental investigation into the flow of marble' by Frank Dawson Adams and John Thomas NicolsonJuly 1900
PP/17/26/2Diagrams, experimental apparatus and results by W C [William Chandler] Roberts-Austen1891
PP/17/26/3Photograph, experimental results by W C [William Chandler] Roberts-Austen22 January 1891
PP/17/26Paper, 'On certain properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by W C [William Chandler] Roberts-Austen1891
RR/7/317Referee's report by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, on a paper 'On the quantitative analysis of certain alloys by means of the spectroscope' by Joseph Norman Lockyer and William Chandler Roberts-Austen12 July 1874
RR/7/398Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'On the liquation, fusibility, and density of certain alloys of silver and copper' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen22 March 1875
RR/12/368Referee's report by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, on a paper 'On the occlusion of oxygen and hydrogen by platinum black. - Part I' by Ludwig Mond, William Ramsay and John Shields9 August 1895
PP/17/26/1Manuscript, 'On certain properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by W C [William Chandler] Roberts-Austen1891
NLB/12/602Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Courtenay E Boyle, Secretary, Board of Trade, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.20 March 1896
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