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Authorised form of nameHadfield; Sir; Robert Abbott (1858 - 1940); metallurgist
Dates1858 - 1940
NationalityBritish
Place of birthAttercliffe, near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Date of birth28 November 1858
Place of deathHis house on Kingston Hill, Surrey
Date of death30/09/1940
Research fieldMetallurgy
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1908; Bt 1917
Memberships:
MICE
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/05/1909
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 647-664, plate, by C H Desch
References:
Geoffrey Tweedale, 'Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield FRS (1858-1940), and the Discovery of Manganese Steel' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 63-74, plate
Paul A Tunbridge, 'Faraday's Genevese Friends' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 263-298
Vanity Fair 04 September 1912
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/49338753
Royal Society codeNA8230
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1909/11Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbott: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/001826Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbottnd
IM/001825Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbott1999
NLB/3/194Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Abbott Hadfield, [Fellow of the Royal Society]10 April 1889
NLB/30/129Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Abbott Hadfield, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 February 1905
NLB/28/139Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Benjamin Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society16 January 1904
NLB/32/46Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Robert Abbott Hadfield, Hecla Works, Sheffield18 December 1905
NLB/37/664Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to R [Robert] A [Abbott] Hadfield. 28 Hertford Street, Mayfair, W29 April 1908
NLB/44/672Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Robert Hadfield FRS14 October 1911
NLB/40/818Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir R [Robert] A [Abbott] Hadfield FRS30 August 1909
NLB/40/835Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons8 September 1909
NLB/45/652Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Robert Hadfield FRS20 April 1912
NLB/46/129Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield, Fellow of the Royal Society13 June 1912
NLB/42/633Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor B [Bertram] Hopkinson FRS 21 July 1910
NLB/44/391Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison [signed by Theodore E James] to Messrs Harrison & Sons3 July 1911
NLB/44/780Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Robert Hadfield FRS9 November 1911
NLB/45/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield14 February 1912
NLB/46/291Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Robert Hadfield, Fellow of the Royal Society6 July 1912
NLB/45/366Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Robert Hadfield FRS21 February 1912
NLB/47/150Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir R [Robert Abbott] Hadfield FRS6 December 1912
NLB/63/20Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS15 June 1922
RR/23/38Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'The corrosion and electrical properties of steels' by Robert Abbott Hadfield and Edgar NewberyNovember 1916
NLB/63/111Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS29 June 1922
NLB/54/705Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, FRS14 August 1917
NLB/54/642Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, FRS12 July 1917
NLB/54/706Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, FRS14 August 1917
RR/35/101Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'Thermal changes in iron-manganese alloys, low in carbon' by Robert Abbott HadfieldMarch 1927
NLB/56/878Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS20 June 1919
NLB/63/40Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS16 June 1922
NLB/56/760Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS20 May 1919
NLB/60/369Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS24 January 1921
NLB/54/447Copy letter from Dr. Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, FRS17 May 1917
NLB/55/663Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS15 July 1918
RR/18/42Referee's report by George Frederick Charles Searle, on a paper 'On the magnetic properties of iron and its alloys in intense field' by Robert Abbott Hadfield and Bertram Hopkinson14 June 1910
NLB/57/471Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS12 November 1919
RR/18/139Referee's report by Francis Henry Neville, on a paper 'On sinhalese iron and steel of ancient origin' by Robert Hadfield20 October 1911
NLB/61/291Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS17 June 1921
RR/35/100Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'Alloys of iron and maganese of low carbon content' by Robert Abbott HadfieldMarch 1927
NLB/55/641Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, FRS08 July 1918
NLB/64/313Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir John Dewrance; Cranmore Place, Chiselhurst12 March 1923
NLB/63/164Copy letter from unknown correspondent; to Sir Robert Hadfield, FRS07 July 1922
NLB/63/742Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert Hadfield, FRS08 December 1922
IM/001827Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbott1922
NLB/67/74Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Ernest] Dalby, FRS15 October 1924
NLB/69/587Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Frederick Orpen] Bower, FRS12 June 1926
NLB/71/803Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, SW15 November 1928
NLB/73/296Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Robert [Abbott] Hadfield, Bt., FRS8 May 1931
NLB/3/224Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Abbott Hadfield12 April 1889
NLB/3/276Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Robert Abbott Hadfield, [Fellow of the Royal Society]26 April 1889
NLB/28/115Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Benjamin Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1904
RR/25/42Referee's report by Robert Abbott Hadfield, on the Bakerian Lecture 'Experiments on the artificial production of diamond' by Charles Algernon Parsonsnd [1918]
EC/1909/10Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbott: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/53/370Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Secretary, Reconstruction Committee, 6a Dean's Yard, S.W. 24 July 1916
RR/48/1Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'On the effect of the temperature of liquid hydrogen (-252.8° C.) On the tensile properties of forty-one specimens of metals comprising (a) pure iron 99.85%; (b) four carbon steels; (c) thirty alloy steels; (d) copper and nickel; (e) four non-ferrous alloy' by W J De Haas and Robert Abbott Hadfield[June 1933]
VF/15Portrait of Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield by Wallace Hester14 November 1901
RR/35/99Referee's report by Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, on a paper 'Alloys of iron and maganese of low carbon content' by Robert Abbott Hadfield14 March 1927
RR/24/45Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'A contribution to the study of the magnetic properties of manganese and of some special manganese steels' by Robert Abbott Hadfield, C Chéneveau and Ch Géneaund [1917]
RR/26/106Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'On the influence of low temperatures on the magnetic properties of alloys of iron with nickel and manganese' by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Robert Abbott Hadfield and H R Woltjer22 March 1921
RR/43/47Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'A research on Faraday's "steel and alloys"' by Robert Abbott HadfieldJuly 1931
RR/43/48Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'A research on Faraday's "steel and alloys"' by Robert Abbott Hadfield1931
RR/48/2Referee's report by Walter Rosenhain, on a paper 'On the effect of the temperature of liquid hydrogen (-252.8° C.) On the tensile properties of forty-one specimens of metals comprising (a) pure iron 99.85%; (b) four carbon steels; (c) thirty alloy steels; (d) copper and nickel; (e) four non-ferrous alloy' by W J De Haas and Robert Abbott Hadfield[May 1933]
MC/19/35Letter from [Benjamin] Baker, 2 Queen Square Place, Queen Anne's Mansions, Westminster, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 March 1904
MC/19/34Letter from [Benjamin] Baker, 2 Queen Square Place, Queen Anne's Mansions, Westminster, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society8 January 1904
MC/25/94Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, Care Kidder & Co, Bankers, 56 Wall Street, New York, to The Secretaries, Royal Society, London15 May 1910
MC/27/188Letter from [George Christopher] Lloyd, Secretary, The Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, London, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W19 February 1912
MC/27/189Letter from [George Christopher] Lloyd, Secretary, The Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, London, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W15 November 1912
MC/27/190Letter from [George Christopher] Lloyd, Secretary, The Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, London, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W10 December 1912
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
MC/31/62Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Carlton House Terrace, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W17 November 1916
MC/31/63Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Carlton House Terrace, S.W, to Professor [Arthur] Schuster, Royal Society, Burlington House, W18 November 1916
MC/32/120Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Cartlon House Terrace, S.W, to Professor Arthur Schuster, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W1 May 1917
MC/32/121Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Cartlon House Terrace, S.W, to [Robert] Harrison, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W14 June 1917
MC/33/80Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Carlton House Terrace, London, S.W.1., to Mr [Robert] Harrison, Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W.30 September 1918
MC/37/31Letter from John Dewrance, 165 Great Dover Street, London, S.E.1., to [Francis Alexander] Towle, The Royal Society, Burlington House, W.1.10 January 1923
MC/33/81Letter from [Robert Abbott] Hadfield, 22 Carlton House Terrace, S.W.1, to [Robert] Harrison, Royal Society, Burlington House, W.11 October 1918
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