Charles Heycock

Charles Thomas Heycock FRS (21 August 1858 – 3 June 1931) was a British chemist and soldier who was awarded the Royal Society's Davy Medal in 1920.^[1]

Charles Thomas Heycock
Born	(1858-08-21)21 August 1858 Bourn, Cambridgeshire
Died	3 June 1931(1931-06-03) (aged 72) Cambridge
Nationality	British
Occupation	Chemist
Awards	Davy Medal (1920)

Biography

Charles Thomas Heycock, the youngest of ten children of Frederick Heycock and Mary (née Heywood), was born on 21 August 1858 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Bedford School, Oakham, and went up to King's College, Cambridge in 1877; he gained the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1880. After teaching for the Cambridge examinations, he was elected to a Fellowship at King’s College in 1895, and became a College Lecturer and Natural Sciences Tutor in the following year.^[2]

Heywood was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and awarded the Royal Society's Davy Medal in 1920, "on the ground of his work in physical chemistry and more especially on the composition & constitution of alloys".^[3][4] His original work on the metals inspired the Goldsmiths Company to endow a Readership in Metallurgy at Cambridge, to which Heywood was appointed in 1908. He was admitted to the Livery of the Company in 1909 and to the Court in 1913.

Heycock and his lifelong friend Francis Henry Neville, FRS published many papers on alloys.^[5] The two collaborators also worked on copper-tin^[6] and gold-aluminium alloys.^[7]

Heycock was lieutenant-colonel in command of the 3rd (Cambridgeshire) Volunteer battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, with the honorary rank of colonel, until he resigned in August 1902.^[8]

Satoyasu Iimori, was a Japanese chemist from RIKEN who learned under Heycock in 1919 - 1920.^[9]

Family

Heycock married Caroline Elizabeth Rosa Sadler^[10] on 28 August 1883 at St Mary the Virgin, Purton. They had a son and two daughters.

Charles Heycock died on 3 June 1931,^[11] and was buried on the 6th at Grantchester.^[12]

Arms

Coat of arms of Charles Heycock

Motto Non Mihi Sed Patriae [13]

References

1. "Who's Who". Retrieved 2 October 2014.
2. "Obituary notice". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 135 (828): i. 1 April 1932. Bibcode:1932RSPSA.135D...1.. doi:10.1098/rspa.1932.0049.
3. West, David Richard Frederick; J. E. Harris (1999). Metals and the Royal Society. Institute of Materials Communications. p. 543. ISBN 1-86125-028-2.
4. The Metallurgist and Materials Technologist (12 ed.). Institution of Metallurgists. 1980. p. 394.
5. For example Heycock, Charles Thomas; Neville, Francis Henry (1897). "XXXIX.—The freezing points of alloys containing zinc and another metal". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions. 71: 383–422. doi:10.1039/CT8977100383.
6. Guru (11 January 2009). "Classics in Materials Science: Heycock and Neville's determination of Cu-Sn (bronze) phase diagram". Materialia Indica. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
7. Heycock, C T; Neville, F H (1900). "Alloys of Gold and Aluminium: Definite Compounds in, and Photographic Study of". Philosophical Transactions A. 194: 201–232.
8. "No. 27469". The London Gazette. 29 August 1902. p. 5606.
9. Masanobu Sakagami, "Memory of the late Professor Satoyasu Iimori (飯盛里安先生のあゆみを偲んで)", Chikyu Kagaku, The Geochemical Society of Japan, 16(2), vii - xii, (1982) (in Japanese)
10. From one of the notable families in the community
11. "Mr C T Heycock: Research in Metallurgy". The Times. 5 June 1931.
12. "Funeral: Mr C T Heycock". The Times. 10 June 1931.
13. "Goldsmiths Hall, 21 Heycock CT". Baz Manning. Retrieved 18 December 2020.