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 167,078 pages of information and 246,707 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.

Frederick Arnold Stead

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Frederick Arnold Stead (1890-1930)


1930/31 Obituary [1]

Frederick Arnold Stead was born in 1890 and was the eldest son of the famous metallurgist, Dr. J. E. Stead.

He was educated at Mill Hill School and Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, after which he joined the firm of Consulting Metallurgists established by his father.

During the war he did valuable work in the Chemical Research Department of Woolwich Arsenal. Apart from his metallurgical work, he did a great deal of useful work in connexion with the Boy Scout movement, and was for many years Assistant County Commissioner for the North Riding of Yorkshire. He died on 8th October 1930, at the age of 40.

He was elected a Member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers in 1924.


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