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 167,716 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Horace Brearley

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Horace Brearley ( -1939) of W. T. Beesley and Co


1939 Obituary.[1]

HORACE BREARLEY died at his home, 18 Thornsett Road, Sheffield, on May 18, 1939 ; he was sixty years of age. Mr. Brearley’s father, Mr. W. H. Brearley, had collaborated with the late Mr. W. T. Beesley in the establishment of W. T. Beesley & Co., Ltd., of Universal Steel Works, Sheffield, and Mr. Horace Brearley joined the firm; he served the company for thirty years, and became a director. Then he went to Messrs. J. J. Habershon & Sons, Ltd., steel rollers, of Holmes Mills, Rotherham, as manager of their cold¬rolling department, and in time became a director of this company also.

Mr. Brearley joined the Iron and Steel Institute in 1933.



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Sources of Information

  1. 1939 Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute