Frederick Charles Alfred Hyatt Lantsberry
Frederick Charles Alfred Hyatt Lantsberry M. Sc. (c1885-1940), Scientist.
Worked with Walter Rosenhain at the National Physical Laboratory.
1939 Obituary.[1]
FRED C. A. H. LANTSBERRY, President and director of Messrs. William Jessop & Sons, Inc., an associated company of Messrs. William Jessop & Sons, Ltd., steel manufacturers, Sheffield, died at Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A., at the age of fifty-five. He was born and educated in Manchester, and started his career in the electrical industry in England.
He went to the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, and later joined the Birmingham Small Arms Company in Birmingham, where he was in charge of the laboratory. In 1920 he went to Sheffield to join Messrs. William Jessop & Sons, Ltd., an associated company of the B.S.A. Company. He started as works manager and later became Managing Director, which post he held until 1928. In that year he went to the United States of America to take charge of the American and Canadian interests of the firm.
Mr. Lantsberry, who was also a member of the Institute of Metals, joined the Iron and Steel Institute in 1908.
1940 Obituary [2]
Frederick C. A. H. Lantsberry, M.Sc.Tech.(Manc.), president and director of William Jessop and Sons, Inc., dealers in special tool steels, died at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y., U.S.A., on June 29, 1939, after an illness of 2 months. He was 55 years of age.
Lantsberry was born in Manchester and graduated from Manchester University.
He was employed for a short time by the British Westinghouse Company, and later founded the Research Laboratories of the Birmingham Small Arms Company.
He joined William Jessop and Sons, and was for some time managing director of the Brightside Works, before going to the United States in 1928 as president of the New York Branch.
By profession Lantsberry was a chemical engineer, and while in this country perfected several types of tool steel. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, and had translated several technical books on steel from English into German.
Lantsberry was an Original Member of the Institute of Metals, and served as a Member of Council from 1921 to 1925.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 1939 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute
- ↑ 1940 Institute of Metals: Obituaries