James Edgar Hurst
James Edgar Hurst CBE, Metallurgical chemist, author of many inventions concerned with the centrifugal casting of iron. Carnegie Research Scholar. Oliver Stubbs, Gold Medallist and E. J. Fox, Gold Medal I.B.F.
1893 Born in Hadfield, Derbys[1]
Career: Assistant Chemist, Beyer Peacock Ltd.
1916 Married Margery Whiteley in Glossop
Chief Chemist and Metallurgist Richard Hornsby and Sons, Ltd.
Chief Chemist and Metallurgist, D. Napier and Sons, Ltd., Acton
1919 Patent on "improvements in molds and chills" with Francis William Stokes and Stokes Castings Ltd of Union Foundry, Mansfield
1921 Managing Director, Centrifugal Castings Ltd., Kilmarnock
1926 Patent with Edmund Bruce Ball on centrifugal castings
1926 Birth of son Dalton William Stanley Hurst in Ashton under Lyne[2]
Manager, Centrifugal Castings Dept., Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd., Thorncliffe, nr. Sheffield.
1927 Patent with Newton, Chambers and Co on "Improvements in or relating to the production of cast iron castings by the centrifugal process"
c.1928 Director of Bradley and Foster
1930 Patent with Sheepbridge Stokes Centrifugal on "Improvements in the production of alloy steel castings"
1934 Patent with Bradley and Foster on "Improvements relating to the production of cast iron castings surface hardened or hardenable by the nitrogen hardening process "
1939 Lived in Lichfield. Chairman, Research Comm.: B.C.I.R.A. Past Pres. Institution of British Foundrymen, Member Iron and Steel Institute., Member of Council Staff Iron and Steel Institute, Member of Verein Deutscher Giessereifachleute. Tech. Director, Bradley and Foster Ltd., Bradley's Concrete Ltd., Sheepbridge Stokes Centrifugal Castings Co., Ltd.
1939 Metallurgist, Technical Director, Pig Iron & Castings Manufacturer, lived in Lichfield with Margery Hurst[3]
1945 Founder member of the Institution of Metallurgists
c.1948 Appointed MD of Bradley and Foster[4]
1959 Died in Birmingham.