Henry Cort
Inventor - Creator of puddled iron - Father of iron trade
This page is part of a website based on the life and achievements of eighteenth-century inventor Henry Cort.
The creator and owner of the site was Eric Alexander who passed away. The site is now hosted by Hans Weebers
Please contact me with any comments or queries.
Pages
  1. Homepage
  2. Life of Henry Cort
  3. Cort's processes in iron manufacture
  4. Cort's patents
  5. Refutation of allegations of conspiracies against Cort
  6. Adam Jellicoe's death
  7. Henry Cort's birth
  8. A navy agent's business
  9. Early life of John Becher
  10. Attwick & Burges families
  11. "Cortship" of second wife
  12. Thomas Morgan
  13. Henry Cort's hoops contract
  14. 1856 Accolade
  15. Generosity of friends 1789-94
  16. James Watson
  17. Illness of Cort's son
  18. Main sources of information
  19. Contemporary sources
  20. Navy sources
  21. Chancery files
  22. Publications about Cort
  23. Assessment of Cort's character
  24. Images of Henry Cort

  25. Impeach-tranferred to 05

  26. Parliamentary inquiry 1811-2
  27. The furore of the 1850s
  28. Society of Arts
  29. Cort's first marriage
  30. Henry Cort's children
  31. Cort family pensions
  32. Henry Cort's Hertfordshire property
  33. 1791 signatories
  34. Guiana and the Cort-Gladstone connection
  35. Cort's twilight years
  36. Memorials to Henry Cort

  37. Smelting of iron
  38. Fining before Cort
  39. Shropshire & Staffordshire ironmasters
  40. Cumbrians: Wilkinson etc
  41. Early works at Merthyr Tydfil
  42. The Crowley business
  43. London ironmongers
  44. Scottish iron
  45. Cort's promotion efforts 1783-6
  46. Later Merthyr connections
  47. Puddling after Henry Cort

  48. Gosport in Cort's day
  49. Gosport administration
  50. Gosport worthies
  51. The Amherst-Porter network
  52. James Hackman, murderer
  53. Samuel Marshall
  54. Samuel Jellicoe's legacy
  55. Links with Titchfield
  56. Links with Fareham

  57. Fact, error and conjecture
  58. 18th century politics
  59. Law in the 18th century
  60. 18th century finance
  61. Religion and sexual mores
  62. Calendar change of 1752
  63. Shelburne, Parry and associates
  64. John Becher's family
  65. The Becher-Thackeray lineage
  66. Thomas Lyttelton: a fantastic narrative
  67. Eighteenth-century London
  68. Abolition and the Corts
  69. The Burges will tangle

  70. Navy connections
  71. Navy agent's business
  72. Cort's clients
  73. Ships' pursers
  74. History of Adam Jellicoe
  75. Dundas & Trotter
  76. Cort's navy office associates
  77. Toulmin & other agents
  78. Sandwich & Middleton
  79. The Arethusa
  80. John Becher's war
  81. Thomas Morgan's war
  82. The 1782 Jamaica convoy
  83. Sinking of the Royal George

  84. Rickman & Scott: two contrasting naval careers-Missing


  85. Visitors 2006-2009
  86. Developement of the site 2006-2009

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  87. Daniel Guion and family

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  88. Other publications

 

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MEMORIALS TO HENRY CORT

The most significant memorial is the sculpture park in West Street, Fareham, part of a millennium project.


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Artists' sketches for Fareham West Street millennium project


A plaque at the Fontley site dates from 1983. The school nearest the Fontley site is now called the Henry Cort Community College.


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Three memorials in Gosport are cited by Philip Eley in the booklet, The Gosport Iron Foundry and Henry Cort (reproduced on the Gosport website):

  1. A mural showing his process above the entrance to the museum;
  2. A mosaic on the Millennium Promenade:
  3. A blue plaque in Mumby Road (not the site of the foundry).

Identical memorial plaques, resulting from Charles H Morgan's activities (1905), can be found in the porches at the churches of St John, Hampstead (where Cort is buried) and St Mary, Lancaster.


Also from this period is the memorial now in lab F1 at Manchester Materials Science Centre.


In London there are commemorative works at the Institution of Civil Engineers (on the ceiling frieze) and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In the member's room at the Institute of Materials are two paintings of the Fontley Iron Mill, painted nearly 100 years after Cort's work there, and not long before much of the building was destroyed by fire.


Foxfield Railway Museum has an engine named "Henry Cort", made for Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Co (Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tank W4 class built 1903, number 933), according to the website http://homepage.ntlworld.com/foxfield/henrycort.htm, while more about steamboat Henry Cort on the Great Lakes can be viewed at http://www.lakehuronlore.com/

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Related pages

Images of Henry Cort

Publications about Cort

Assessment of Cort's character

Cort's links with Fareham

Cort's links with Titchfield

Life of Henry Cort

The pages on this site are copied from the original site of Eric Alexander (henrycort.net) with his allowance.
Eric passed away abt 2012
If you use/copy information from this site, please include a link to the page where you found the information.

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