| Authorised form of name | Hadcock; Sir; Albert George (1861 - 1936); engineer |
| Dates | 1861 - 1936 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Nottinghamshire, England |
| Date of birth | 22 March 1861 |
| Date of death | 04/06/1936 |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Research field | Engineering |
| Ballistics |
| Activity | Career: Joined the Royal Artillery, becoming Quarter-Master and Honorary Second Lieutenant (1885); joined the staff of Sir W. G.Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd., at Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1889) where he held positions of Proof Officer, Head of the Inspection Department, and Manager of the Gun Shops, and owing to his technical expertise assumed responsibility for the design and development of guns, gun mountings, shells, andfuzes, both for military and naval ordnance; Volunteer Officer Captain in the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteers (1889); Major commanding the 1st Northumberlad Battery (1898); Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 1st Northumberland R.G.A (1910-14); Military Member of the Northumberland Territorial Force Association Committee (1910-19); upon the death of Sir Andrew Noble, elected to the Board of Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd. (1915); later becoming Managing Director of Elswick Works; director of the new firm of Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., and when Vickers Limited acquired the capital of Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd, he was on the Board as Technical Consultant, holding the position until his death.
Honours:
KBE 1918 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/05/1918 |
| Age at election | 57 |
| Proposer | Thomas Mather; Herbert Brereton Baker; Philip Watts; William Ernest Dalby; Dugald Clerk; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; Robert Abbott Hadfield |
| Relationships | Spouse: Sibylla, youngest daughter of General J . W.Rideout, I.S.C (1889). |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 141-143, plate, by E H T D'Eyncourt |
| Royal Society code | NA1707 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1918/13 | Hadcock, Sir Albert George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/001819 | Hadcock, Sir Albert George | nd |
| NLB/55/527 | Copy letter from [Alfred Hastings] White, Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society; to Sir [Albert George] Hadcock, FRS | 16 May 1918 |
| RR/55/152 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Shot-motion dynamics for pressure-index propellants' by W E Grimshaw | June 1935 |
| RR/24/44 | Referee's report by Joseph Ernest Petavel, on a paper 'Internal ballistics' by Albert George Hadcock | 29 November 1917 |
| RR/44/94 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'The plastic distortion of metals' by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor and H Quinney | June 1931 |
| NLB/55/580 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent | 18 June 1918 |
| RR/54/52 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Isotherms of CO2 between 0° and 150° and pressures from 16 to 250 atm (Amagat densities 18-206)' by A Michels and C Michels | 1935 |
| RR/54/51 | Referee's report by Herbert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Isotherms of CO2 between 70 and 3000 atmospheres (Amagat densities between 200 and 600)' by A Michels, C Michels and H Wouters | 1935 |
| RR/52/54 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'On the fracture of fibred iron-silicon sheets' by Francis Bitter | March 1934 |
| RR/55/153 | Second referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Shot-motion dynamics for pressure-index propellants' by W E Grimshaw | August 1935 |
| NLB/65/548 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Albert] George Hadcock, FRS | 17 November 1923 |
| EC/1918/12 | Hadcock, Sir Albert George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/54/76 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Explosion waves and shock waves Part II—The shock wave and explosion products sent out by blasting detonators' by William Payman, Donald Whitley Woodhead and Harold Titman | October 1934 |
| RR/56/67 | Referee's report by Albert George Hadcock, on a paper 'Explosion waves and shock waves. III. The initiation of detonation in mixtures of ethylene and oxygen and of carbon monoxide and oxygen' by W Payman and H Titman | [June 1935] |
| MC/33/127 | Letter from the Secretary, Bolbec Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, to The Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.1. | 6 June 1918 |