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Where is Henry Cort Community College?

The Henry Cort Community College bears his name and is located in the town of Fareham, in the south of Hampshire, England. The busway between Fareham and Bridgemary, built on the trackbed of the old Gosport to Fareham railway line, is entitled Henry Cort Way on maps.

What is EAL at the Henry Cort Community College?

At The Henry Cort Community College we are always proud of the way our EAL (English as an Additional Language) students settle in and achieve success during their time with us b... Miss Greenstreet has been getting creative, painting this peacock.

How do I update my family's information in Parent Portal?

It is time to update your family's information in Parent Portal! Please select MORE in the menu to the left to start updating and verifying your information. IMPORTANT: This year, you will be selecting a transportation option for each of your Henry County students.

What is the Infinite Campus Parent Portal?

The Parent Portal (Infinite Campus) is a web-based program that provides all parents with the ability to view academic information for their student (s) through the Infinite Campus. Infinite Campus provides parents information about their child's schoolwork and progress.

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Henry Cort PE Dept

Good luck to the Academy! Toby and Elliott both instrumental to our schools Hampshire Cup success last year https://t.co/gxeZ7YwmkH

Henry Cort PE Dept

Good luck to the Academy! Toby and Elliott both instrumental to our schools Hampshire Cup success last year https://t.co/gxeZ7YwmkH

Henry Cort

Lets get creative @CortCreative? @bartonpeveril are running their annual art competition see below for details #aspire #individuality https://t.co/KhEBJFwnSq

Henry Cort

Are you looking for a new opportunity? We have the following support vacancies:Finance and admin assistantAttendance officer with student welfare dutiesSupport and progress liaison officerSee details on our website: https://t.co/6uF7dlvytX #aspire #opportunities

Henry Cort

We are so proud to hear the news from @pompey about alumni @tobystewart12's professional contract #aspire #achievement https://t.co/bfQk4LHHI3

Henry Cort

We are pleased to hear of more alumni success. Toby has had his contract extended with @Pompey and has been at @England training camps #aspire https://t.co/SdFp97uKR2

Henry Cort PE Dept

He's one of our own Congratulations, Toby An inspiration to all at Henry Cort https://t.co/WmEVgqDfm3

Where is Henry Cort Community College?

The Henry Cort Community College bears his name and is located in the town of Fareham, in the south of Hampshire, England. The busway between Fareham and Bridgemary, built on the trackbed of the old Gosport to Fareham railway line, is entitled Henry Cort Way on maps.

Where was Cort born?

Little is known of Cort's early life other than that he was possibly born into a family coming from Lancaster, England although his parents are unknown. Although his date of birth is traditionally given as 1740, this can not be confirmed and his early life remains an enigma. By 1765, Cort had become a Royal Navy pay agent, acting on commission collecting half pay and widows' pensions from an office in Crutched Friars near Aldgate in London. At that time, despite Abraham Darby 's improvements in the smelting of iron using coke instead of charcoal as blast furnace fuel, the resultant product was still only convertible to bar iron by a laborious process of decarburization in finery forges. As a result, bar iron imported from the Baltic undercut that produced in Britain, (increasingly from Russia) at considerable expense.

What is Richard Cort known for?

Nationality. English. Occupation. Inventor, pioneer in the iron industry. Known for. Inventions relating to puddling and rolling in the manufacture of iron. Children. Richard Cort. Henry Cort (c. 1740 – 23 May 1800) was an English ironmaster.

What was Cort's invention?

Cort developed his ideas at the Fontley Works (as he had renamed Titchfield Hammer) resulting in a 1783 patent for a simple reverberatory furnace to refine pig iron followed by d a 1784 patent for his puddling furnace, with grooved rollers which mechanised the formerly laborious process.

What was Cort's contribution to iron making?

Patents and royalties. The importance of Cort's improvements to the process of iron making were recognised as early as 1786 by Lord Sheffield who regarded them (undeservedly) along with James Watt 's work on the steam engine as more important than the loss of America.

Who was Cort's second wife?

In 1768, Cort's second marriage was to Elizabeth Heysham, the daughter of a Romsey solicitor and steward of the Duke of Portland whose estates included Titchfield. whose uncle William Attwick although a successful London attorney had inherited the family ironmongery business in Gosport which supplied the navy with mooring chains, anchors and hundreds of different items of ironmongery.

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Overview

Biography

Little is known of Cort's early life other than that he was possibly born into a family coming from Lancaster, England although his parents are unknown. Although his date of birth is traditionally given as 1740, this can not be confirmed and his early life remains an enigma. By 1765, Cort had become a Royal Navy pay agent, acting on commission collecting half pay and widows' p…

Personal life

Cort's marriage to Elizabeth Heysham produced 13 children. His business ventures did not bring him wealth, even though vast numbers of the puddling furnaces that he developed were eventually used (reportedly 8,200 by 1820), they used a modified version of his process and thus avoided payment of royalties. He was later awarded a government pension, but died a ruined man, and was buried in the churchyard of St John-at-Hampstead, London.

Legacy

Fifty years after Cort's death, The Times of London lauded him as "the father of the iron trade". His son, Richard Cort, became a cashier for the British Iron Company in 1825 – 6 and subsequently wrote several pamphlets severely critical of the management of the company. He also attacked a number of early railway companies.
The Henry Cort Community College bears his name and is located in the town of Fareham, in the …

Notes

1. ^ Mott, R. A. (ed. P. Singer), Henry Cort: the Great Finer, The Metals Society, London 1983
2. ^ Evans, Chris (2006). "Cort, Henry (1741?–1800)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
3. ^ Evans, C., Jackson, O., and Ryden, G. ‘Baltic iron and the British iron industry in the eighteenth century’. Econ. Hist. Rev. (2nd ser.), 55, 642–665. 2002: King, P. ‘The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and Wales’ Econ. …

Further reading

• Dickinson, H. W. Henry Cort's Bicentenary, in The Newcomen Society, Transactions 1940–41, volume XXI, 1943.
• Mott, R. A. (ed. P. Singer), Henry Cort: the Great Finer, The Metals Society, London 1983)
• Webster, Thomas The Case of Henry Cort and his Inventions in the Manufacture of British Iron, Mechanics' Magazine, 1859

External links

• Henry Cort – brief biography
• Henry Cort – another brief biography
• The Gosport Iron Foundry and Henry Cort
• Henry Cort, Father of the Iron Trade - the most reliable and up-to-date information on the British inventor