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1873 Elected a Fellow of the [[Chemical Society]]
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1881 of Phoenix Foundry and Engineering Works, Derby
 
1885 of Firth College, Sheffield
 
1887 Member of  a Committee  appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Board  of Trade to settle questions connected with  the  testing of  cast steel anchors.
 
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1925 resume of his career:
 
"Professor W.  H . Greenwood (1846-1905),  who  was  born  at  Manchester and received his scientific training  at  the Owens College  there and at the  Royal School  of Mines and  University  College, London,  came to  Birmingham in  1885  and for  many years held  a most important  position  with  the  [[BSA|Birmingham Small Arms  and Metal Company]]. In 1869
he  obtained a senior Whitworth  Scholarship and became  Assistant  Manager  at  the [[Whitworth  works]] in Manchester in  1871. He  was sent  to  Russia in  1875 as Chief Engineer to the Government Ordnance Works at Obouchoff, near St. Petersburg. On returning to  England  in 1880  he became  connected with  the [[Landore Siemens Steel Co|Landore Siemens Steel Company]], and  five years later  accepted the  Professorship  of  Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy in the University College,  Sheffield - that  is before  the foundation of the University. His Manual on Metallurgy and numerous papers  are  well  known and of  great  interest in  this  particular branch  of science."
 
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