| Authorised form of name | Hartley; Sir; Harold Brewer (1878 - 1972); engineer |
| Dates | 1878 - 1972 |
| Date of birth | 03 September 1878 |
| Date of death | 09/09/1972 |
| Activity | Education:
Dulwich College; MA (Oxon)
Career:
Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford; Bedford Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford
Honours:
MC 1916; CBE 1919; Kt 1928; KCVO 1944; GCVO 1957; CH 1967
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1926 |
| RSActivity | Lectures:
Wilkins 1952 |
| Relationships | Only child of Harold Thomas Hartley, journalist and publisher, and his wife Katie; married (1906) Gertrude, daughter of Arthur Lionel Smith, Master of Balliol College |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1973 vol 19 pp 349-373, plate, by A G Ogston
References:
H R H The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 'Research and Prediction. The Inaugural Hartley Lecture Delivered at the Royal Society, 21 May 1974' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 11-27
R V Jones, 'Address at the Memorial Service for Sir Harold Hartley, FRS, at Westminster Abbey on 17 October 1972' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 181-184
R V J and W D M P, 'Sir Harold Hartley, FRS. An Appreciation on his Retirement from the Editorship of Notes and Records' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 1-2, plate
Sir Harold Hartley, 'Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, FRS' in NR 1971 vol 26 pp 107-110
Edmund J Bowen, 'The Balliol-Trinity Laboratories, Oxford 1853-1940' in NR 1970 vol 25 pp 227-236
Sir Harold Hartley and D C Martin, 'The Royal Society Club Dinner on 14 November 1968 in Celebration of the 90th Birthday of Sir Harold Hartley, FRS' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 146-155 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/107374368 |
| Code | NA8235 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1926/15 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/18/44 | Letter from Harold Brewer Hartley to Christina Butler | 6 July 1952 |
| MM/18/47 | Letter from Harold Brewer Hartley to Christina Butler | |
| MM/18/45 | Letter from Harold Brewer Hartley to Christina Butler | 28 July 1952 |
| IM/001968 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer | nd |
| IM/001969 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer | nd |
| PB/9/1/48 | Correspondence with Sir Harold Hartley | 1966 |
| HF/1/17/1/26 | Harold Hartley | 1960 - 1967 |
| MM/22/6 | Letter from Sir Harold Hartley to Sir Gerald Kelly | 27 November 1968 |
| PB/8/28/1/2 | Correspondence with colleagues, advisers and friends in preparation for British Association Address. | 1957 |
| PB/1/33/3/3 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| PB/1/33/5/3 | Order of Merit | 1967 |
| MM/18/139 | Doodles on Royal Society Club menu by Edwin Lutyens | 20 June 1935 |
| HWT/33/4 | H W Thompson's personal correspondence as Foreign Secretary | 1967 |
| MM/22/8 | Letter from Sir Harold Hartley to Sir Gerald Kelly | 17 January 1969 |
| MM/22/9 | Letter from Sir Harold Hartley to Sir Gerald Kelly | 27 January 1969 |
| MM/18/46 | Letter from Harold Brewer Hartley to Christina Butler | |
| IM/001970 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer | nd |
| MM/22/7 | Letter from Sir Harold Hartley to Sir Gerald Kelly | 11 December 1969 |
| MS/3/6 | 'Hartley' notebook of Arthur Mourant, [1920s] | Early 1920s |
| RR/43/79 | Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The conductivity of electrolytes in acetone' by N L Ross Kane and Harold Hartley | September 1931 |
| RR/42/74 | Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The conductivity of thiocyanates methyl alcohol' by Augusta Unmack, D M Murray-Rust, and Harold Brewer Hartley | February 1930 |
| RR/43/78 | Referee's report by Arthur Lapworth, on a paper 'The conductivity of electrolytes in acetone' by N L Ross Kane and Harold Hartley | August 1931 |
| RR/39/40 | Referee's report by Harold Brewer Hartley, on a paper 'The behaviour of electrolytes in mixed solvents. Part I.—The free energies and heat contents of hydrogen chloride in water—Ethyl alcohol solutions' by John Alfred Valentine Butler and C M Robertson | nd [1929] |
| RR/47/82 | Referee's report by Harold Brewer Hartley, on a paper 'The behaviour of electrolytes in mixed solvents. Part IV.—The free energy of zinc chloride in water-alcohol solutions' by R T Hamilton and J A V Butler | 15 July 1932 |
| RR/44/116 | Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The conductivities of tetraethylammonium and ammonium salts in methyl alcohol' by Augusta Unmack, E Bullock, D M Murray-Rust and Harold Brewer Hartley | May 1931 |
| RR/21/88 | Referee's report by William Palmer Wynne, on a paper 'The electrical condition of a gold surface during the absorption of gases and their catalytic combustion' by Harold Brewer Hartley | 3 February 1914 |
| RR/68/506 | Second letter from Harold Brewer Hartley, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding two papers 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. I' and 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. II' by Harold Warris Thompson and P Torkington | 31 July 1944 |
| RR/34/11 | Referee's report by Harold Brewer Hartley, on a paper 'On the theory of unimolecular reactions' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | 20 August 1926 |
| NLB/69/773 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Harold Brewer] Hartley, Esq., FRS., Oxford | 8 October 1926 |
| NLB/71/621 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Harold Hartley, FRS | 17 August 1928 |
| NLB/72/525 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Harold Hartley, CBE, MC, FRS | 3 December 1929 |
| NLB/73/307 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Harold [Brewer] Hartley, M.C., FRS | 18 May 1931 |
| PB/8/45/3/2 | Correspondence re Blackett's Tizard Memorial Lecture, 1960 | 1960 |
| IM/001971 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer | nd |
| IM/GA/WS/2430 | Hartley, Sir Harold Brewer | 1946 |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| HH | Correspondence and papers of Sir Harold Brewer Hartley | [1930s-1970s] |
| RR/68/505 | Letter from John Jacob Fox, to Harold Brewer Hartley, regarding two papers 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. I' and 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. II' by Harold Warris Thompson and P Torkington | 28 July 1944 |
| RR/68/504 | Letter from Harold Brewer Hartley, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding two papers 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. I' and 'The infra-red spectra of polymers and related monomers. II' by Harold Warris Thompson and P Torkington | 22 June 1944 |
| RR/34/12 | Referee's report by Harold Brewer Hartley, on a paper 'An apparently unimolecular reaction.—the homogeneous decomposition of gaseous propionic aldehyde' by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Harold Warris Thompson | 20 August 1926 |
| RR/36/81 | Referee's report by Harold Brewer Hartley, on a paper 'The solubility of hydrogen in silver' by Edgar William Richard Steacie and F M G Johnson | [November 1927] |
| P/0061 | Portrait of Hartley, Sir Harold | c 1958 |