GB 0117 AE - Egerton, Sir Alfred Charles Glyn (1886-1959)

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GB 0117 AE 1898-1970 Collection (fonds) 34 boxes Egerton , Sir , Alfred Charles Glyn , 1886-1959 , Knight , chemist
Born, 11 October 1886; fourth son of Colonel Sir Alfred Mordaunt Egerton, KCVO, and the Hon Mary Georgina Ormsby-Gore, eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Harlech; known from childhood as Jack; attended Eton College, from 1900; his science master was Thomas Cunningham Porter and while at the school Egerton was encouraged to found the Eton College Scientific Society; continued his studies at University College, London, from 1904; read Chemistry under Sir William Ramsey and graduated with first class honours, 1908; his research field was Thermodynamics; worked under Professor Ganz at Nancy University, 1909; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1909-1913; worked with W H Nernst in Berlin, 1913; Department of Explosives Supply, Ministry of Munitions, 1914-1918; Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 1918-1935; appointed Reader in Thermodynamics, Oxford University, 1923; elected Fellow of The Royal Society, 1926; served on Council of The Royal Society, 1931-1933; Chair of Chemical Technology, Department of Chemical Technology and Applied Physical Chemistry, Imperial College, 1936-1952; Physical Secretary of The Royal Society, 1938-1948; research on fuel, fire-raising and fire protection, 1939-1945; member of War Cabinet Scientific Advisory Committee; chairman of the Fuel and Propulsion Committee of the Admiralty; ex-officio member of committees connected with The Royal Society; travelled to the USA to reorganise the work of the British Central Scientific Office and to improve scientific liaison between London and Washington, 1942; knighted, 1943; Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1948; closely involved in the organization of the Royal Society Scientific Information Conference, London, 1948; travelled abroad, with a special interest in India, which he visited, 1948, 1954; appointed chairman of a committee to review the working and development of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Director, Salters Institute of Industrial Chemistry, 1949-1959; Emeritus Professor of Chemical Technology, University of London, 1953-1959; Chairman, Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 1954; Adviser to the Tobacco Manufacturers' Standing Committee, 1956; undertook a tour of the Middle East (Beirut, Baghdad and Teheran), 1957; received various Fellowships, honours and awards; Fellow of University College, London, Imperial College and City and Guilds College; honorary degrees from Birmingham, Cairo, Nancy and Helsinki; Honorary President of Combustion Institute; Honorary Editor of Fuel and also of Combustion and Flame; British Coal Utilization Research Associations: Coal Science Lecturer, 1952; Institution of Mechanical Engineers: George Stephenson Research Prize, Herbert Akroyd Stuart Prize, and Thomas Hawkesley Lecturer for 1940; Institution of Civil Engineers: the Telford Premium, 1942; The Royal Society: Rumford Medal, 1946; Institution of Chemical Engineers: Hinchley Memorial Medal, 1954; Institute of Fuel: Melchett Medal, 1956; Combustion Institute: Egerton Medal, 1958; married the Hon Ruth Cripps, 1912; adopted Francis, the posthumous younger son of Egerton's brother Louis who had been killed in the First World War; a keen watercolourist, with an exhibition of his paintings held at the Chenil Galleries, 1957; died in France, in the Alpes-Maritimes, 7 September 1959. Publications: The 1939 Callendar Steam Tables with G S Callendar (E Arnold & Co, London, 1939); Editor of Fuel; lectures and papers largely relating to combustion and utilization of energy.

The collection was presented to the Royal Society by Lady Ruth Julia Egerton in 1969 (see AE/6/6).

Correspondence, diaries and other papers of Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, including some personal papers but largely relating to The Royal Society and particularly to wartime activities and post-war research needs in Britain. The diaries form an almost complete record of Egerton's career during the period 1943-1959. Earlier diaries date back to 1917 and the period 1929-1930, but for the most part they relate to the period 1938-1941.

The collection has been arranged into 6 series:
AE/1 Royal Society business
AE/2 Diaries
AE/3 Personal correspondence and papers
AE/4 Visits abroad
AE/5 Awards and certificates
AE/6 Posthumous papers

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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List available in Library. Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

Archive material available in other repositories in the UK:

Imperial College Library: papers, 1908-59, comprising research papers, notes and reports largely relating to explosives, manufacture of ammonia and hydrogen, [1916-1925], laboratory work at Oxford, 1919-1926, work for the Admiralty, 1940-[1950], papers relating to patents, 1928-1958; research notebooks, 1908-1937, including some correspondence and notably concerning vapour pressure of metals, amides of metals, residual gases in discharge tubes; lecture notes concerning combustion; papers on optical pyrometry, 1933-1938; correspondence and papers relating to research on the properties of steam, steam tables, international conferences on steam, 1930-1946 (Ref: B/EGERTON). See also Chemisty Department papers (Ref: GB0098 KC) for correspondence relating to professorship at Imperial College.

Nuffield College Library, Oxford University: correspondence with Lord Cherwell, 1914-49 (Ref: Cherwell papers).

Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University: correspondence with AV Hill, 1944-59 (Ref: AVHL).

Description produced by the Royal Society and revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Created 9/10/2001, modified 27/05/2002, revised Sep 2002 Applied research Associations Awards Chemical processes Chemical research Chemists Combustion Diaries Documents Egerton , Sir , Alfred Charles Glyn , 1886-1959 , Knight , chemist Information sources International conflicts Learned societies Literary forms and genres Literature Nonfiction Organization of research Organizations Primary documents Prose Research Research priorities Royal Society Science administration Science planning Science policy Scientific personnel Scientists Social behaviour Social norms Thermodynamics Travel Travel abroad War World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) Personnel People by occupation People

The collection was presented to the Royal Society by Lady Ruth Julia Egerton in 1969 (see AE/6/6).

Correspondence, diaries and other papers of Sir Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, including some personal papers but largely relating to The Royal Society and particularly to wartime activities and post-war research needs in Britain. The diaries form an almost complete record of Egerton's career during the period 1943-1959. Earlier diaries date back to 1917 and the period 1929-1930, but for the most part they relate to the period 1938-1941.

The collection has been arranged into 6 series:
AE/1 Royal Society business
AE/2 Diaries
AE/3 Personal correspondence and papers
AE/4 Visits abroad
AE/5 Awards and certificates
AE/6 Posthumous papers

Open.

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

• English

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English

List available in Library. Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

Archive material available in other repositories in the UK:

Imperial College Library: papers, 1908-59, comprising research papers, notes and reports largely relating to explosives, manufacture of ammonia and hydrogen, [1916-1925], laboratory work at Oxford, 1919-1926, work for the Admiralty, 1940-[1950], papers relating to patents, 1928-1958; research notebooks, 1908-1937, including some correspondence and notably concerning vapour pressure of metals, amides of metals, residual gases in discharge tubes; lecture notes concerning combustion; papers on optical pyrometry, 1933-1938; correspondence and papers relating to research on the properties of steam, steam tables, international conferences on steam, 1930-1946 (Ref: B/EGERTON). See also Chemisty Department papers (Ref: GB0098 KC) for correspondence relating to professorship at Imperial College.

Nuffield College Library, Oxford University: correspondence with Lord Cherwell, 1914-49 (Ref: Cherwell papers).

Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University: correspondence with AV Hill, 1944-59 (Ref: AVHL).

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English