Code | DS/UK/3118 |
Dates | 1831-1888 |
Person Name | Hadfield; Robert (1831-1888) |
Surname | Hadfield |
Forenames | Robert |
Activity | Crucible steel maker and steel wire drawer (c 1856); founder of small-scale steel casting company, Hadfield’s Steel Foundry Company, Attercliffe, Sheffield. |
Relationships | Son of Joseph Hadfield 47, grocer. Second cousin of the steel manufacturer Sir John Brown. Married Marianne (nee Abbott) in 1857. Father of Sir Robert Hadfield, steel manufacturer and metallurgist (1858-1940), Florence Mary Hadfield (b.1864) and Edith Lizzie Hadfield (b.1868). |
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