This report describes a website based on the life and achievements of eighteenth-century inventor Henry Cort.  Please email site controller Eric Alexander with any comments or queries.

 

 

Development of Site

 

The first 8 pages were installed on 13 July 2006.  The visitor-monitoring program was installed late on Monday 24 July 2006.  On 27 July the site was enlarged to 21 pages, prior to official launch on the 29th to commemorate the 150th anniversary of a Times leader describing Cort as "father of the iron trade".

 

Over the next six months, more pages on Cort were introduced, together with series of pages on the Navy, Gosport and features of eghteen-century Britain.  Further pages were added, and substantial alterations made, in the subsequent period to April 2009.

 

The full capacity of the site has the following pages:

 

01life.htm            Life of Henry Cort

02iron.htm            Cort’s processes in iron manufacture

03patnt1.htm          Cort’s patents

04patnt2.htm          Refutation of allegations of conspiracies against Cort

05jeldie.htm          Adam Jellicoe’s death

06birth.htm           Henry Cort’s birth

07navagt.htm          A navy agent’s business

08becher.htm          Early life of John Becher

09attwick.htm         Attwick & Burges families

10wife2.htm           “Cortship” of second wife

11morgan.htm          Thomas Morgan

12hoops.htm           Henry Cort’s hoops contract

13times1856.htm       1856 Accolade

14support.htm         Generosity of friends 1789-94

15watson.htm          James Watson

16mental.htm          Illness of Cort’s son

17sources.htm         Main sources of information

18contemp.htm         Contemporary sources

19navinfo.htm         Navy sources

20chancery.htm        Chancery files

21pubs.htm.htm        Publications about Cort

22charact.htm         Assessment of Cort’s character

23images.htm          Images of Henry Cort

25inq1812.htm         Parliamentary inquiry 1811-2

26furor1850s.htm      The furore of the 1850s

27artsoc.htm          Society of Arts

28wife01.htm          Cort’s first marriage

29family.htm          Henry Cort’s children

30pensions.htm        Cort family pensions

31hertsprop.htm       Henry Cort’s Hertfordshire property

32pet1791.htm         1791 signatories

33glad.htm            Guiana and the Cort-Gladstone connection

34twilight.htm        Cort’s twilight years

35memorials.htm       Memorials to Henry Cort

 

ffsmelt.htm           Smelting of iron

fgprehc.htm           Fining before Cort

fhsalopstaff.htm      Shropshire & Staffordshire ironmasters

ficumbria.htm         Cumbrians: Wilkinson etc

fjmerth0.htm          Early works at Merthyr Tydfil

fkcrowley.htm         The Crowley business

fllondon.htm          London ironmongers

fmscotiron.htm        Scottish iron

fnpromote.htm         Cort’s promotion efforts 1783-6

fomerthr.htm          Later Merthyr connections

fppuddle.htm          Puddling after Henry Cort

 

gosphome.htm          Gosport in Cort’s day

gpadmin.htm           Gosport administration

gqworthy.htm          Gosport worthies

gramhpor.htm          The Amherst-Porter network

gshackman.htm         James Hackman, murderer

gtmarshall.htm        Samuel Marshall

gujelicoe.htm         Samuel Jellicoe’s legacy

gvtfield.htm          Links with Titchfield

gwfarehm.htm          Links with Fareham

 

hjerror.htm           Fact, error and conjecture

hkpolitics.htm        18th century politics

hl18claw.htm          Law in the 18th century

hmfinance.htm         18th century finance

hnreligion.htm        Religion and sexual mores

ho1752.htm            Calendar change of 1752

hpparry.htm           Shelburne, Parry and associates

hqbechers.htm         John Becher’s family

hrthack.htm           The Becher-Thackeray lineage

hslytt.htm            Thomas Lyttelton: a fantastic narrative

hulondon.htm          Eighteenth-century London

hvslave.htm           Abolition and the Corts

hwburges.htm          The Burges will tangle

 

index.htm             Website index

 

navyhome.htm          Navy connections

nbaginc.htm           Navy agent’s business

ncclients.htm         Cort’s clients

ndpurser.htm          Ships’ pursers

nejellic.htm          History of Adam Jellicoe

nfduntrot.htm         Dundas & Trotter

ngoffice.htm          Cort’s navy office associates

nhtoulmin.htm         Toulmin & other agents

nisandmid.htm         Sandwich & Middleton

njarethusa.htm        The Arethusa

nkbechwar.htm         John Becher’s war

nlmorgwar.htm         Thomas Morgan’s war

nmconvoy.htm          The 1782 Jamaica convoy

nnrgeorge.htm         Sinking of the Royal George

noricscot.htm         Rickman & Scott: two contrasting naval careers

 

sitemon.htm           Visitor monitoring record

siterun.htm           Development of site (this page)

 

 

 

Related pages

 

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Life of Henry Cort

 

 

 

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