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

Gosport administration

Because its status has failed to keep up with its growth, eighteenth-century Gosport lacks a town charter. No mayor or burgesses: it has to make do with Paving Trustees (or Commissioners) set up by special Act of Parliament.

White's The Story of Gosport gives an account of this Act, and lists the trustees initially named - nearly 50 in all. William Attwick is one. Other Gosport worthies who feature in the Cort story are amongst those listed.

How they deal with paving, nuisances and annoyances is recorded in minute books now held at Hampshire Record Office.

Their earliest recorded meeting: 9 May 1763 at the India Arms, Middle Street - "the largest and most dignified of the beer houses, with capacious stabling at the rear", according to The Story of Gosport - just over the road from Attwick's shop. Meetings continue there until December 1769, when one is held at the Crown Inn. Later there are meetings at the White Lyon and the Dolphin.

On 7 October 1768, we read, the trustees resolve that "Mary Biddlecomb be admonished to throw no cabbage leaves or any Garden filth into the footway, gutters or Horseway of the Streets of Gosport."

On 1 November 1779 "Mr Henry Cort be summoned to appear at the next meeting" to say why he should not be "fined for depositing coal and cinders on the Green".

On 24 April 1780 "Mr Cort at liberty to fence in the wharf which he rents of Mr Child".

In December 1800 a dispute is recorded with the military about their right to block off rights of way in the town.

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Eric passed away abt 2012
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