Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,260 pages of information and 244,501 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Ernest Wheatcroft

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Ernest Wheatcroft (c1849-1899)


1899 Obituary [1]

ERNEST WHEATCROFT died in June 1889 at the age of forty.

He went to Sheffield as a lad, and entered the laboratory of John Brown & Co., where he remained as chemist for a number of years. About seventeen years ago he entered Hadfield's Steel Foundry as a chemist, and eventually became manager of one of the departments.

He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1892.


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