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
88. Extremely bad academic work and extremely bad journalism

MEMORIALS TO HENRY CORT

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

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.

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/

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.