The foundation is still operating as a registered charity awarding grants for charitable purposes in South Yorkshire. His aim was to provide a "Fresh Gate" or new opportunity to people like him born into modest circumstances so that they may experience travel, education, the arts and music. In 1941 Brearley created a charitable trust The Freshgate Trust Foundation, a grantmaking charity operating in Sheffield and South Yorkshire. It was in 1908, when two of Sheffield's principal steelmaking companies innovatively agreed to jointly finance a common research laboratory ( Brown Firth Laboratories) that Harry Brearley was asked to lead the project.Īfter leaving Brown Firth, Brearley joined Brown Bayley's Steel Works, also in Sheffield he became a director of the firm in 1925. In his early thirties, Brearley had earned a reputation as an experienced professional and for being very astute in the resolution of practical, industrial, metallurgical problems. įor several years, in addition to his laboratory work, he studied at home and later in formal evening classes, to specialize in steel production techniques and associated chemical analysis methods. He married Helen Theresa Crank (1874–1955) on 23 October 1895. He left Woodside school at the age of twelve to enter his first employment as a labourer in the steelworks where his father worked, later getting the post of general assistant in the company's chemical laboratory. Life īrearley was born on 18 February 1871 in Sheffield, England, the son of John Brearley, a steelworker, and his wife, Jane Brearley née Senior.
Based in Sheffield, his invention brought affordable cutlery to the masses, and saw an expansion of the city's traditional cutlery trade. Was an English metallurgist, credited with the invention of "rustless steel" (later to be called " stainless steel" in the anglophone world). Harry Brearley (18 February 1871 – 14 July 1948) Monument to Harry Brearley at the former Brown Firth Research Laboratories in Sheffield, England
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