Ernest Jefferson Barnes

Ernest Jefferson Barnes (c1883-1939) of Hadfields

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Obituary.

Mr. E. J. BARNES died on September 19,1939. He was educated at Sheffield Grammar School and later at the Technical School, St. George’s Square, Sheffield. He first joined the staff of Messrs. Hadfields, Ltd., as a junior assistant in the chemical laboratory of the Hecla Works, and later he was transferred to the steelmaking department as under-manager. In 1920 he joined the Barrow Hematite Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., in a managerial capacity, and later he took a similar position in South Staffordshire. In 1925 Mr. Barnes returned to Sheffield to become manager of the steel¬melting plant at Messrs. Hadfields, Ltd., which position he held until his death ; he was appointed a local director of the firm in 1929.

During his long membership of the Iron and Steel Institute, Mr. Barnes contributed several papers to the Institute. His first paper, written in collaboration with Professor Andrew Me William, on “ A Heat-Treatment Study of Bessemer Steels,” was published in 1909; in the following years these co-authors presented four further papers, on “ Some Physical Properties of 2% Chromium Steels ” (1910), “ Infiuence of 0-2% Vanadium on Steels of Varying Carbon Content ” (1911), “ Some Properties of Heat-Treated 3% Nickel Steels ” (1911), and “ Brinell Hardness and Tenacity Factors of a Series of Heat-Treated Special Steels ” (1915). In 1938, together with Dr. B. J. Sarjant, he contributed a paper on ‘‘ Some Experiences in the Design and Control of Open-Hearth Furnaces ” to the “ Symposium on Steelmaking ” organised by the Iron and Steel Institute and held in conjunction with the May Meeting of that year.

Mr. Barnes was elected a Member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1905.

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