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THE death of Mr. Charles Thomas Heycock, -L on June 3, removes from among us one who had gained the affection of generations of Cambridge men and who was a pioneer in an important branch of inorganic chemistry. Heycock was the younger son of Frederick Heycock of Braunstone, Oakham, and was born on August 21, 1858; he received his early education at the Grammar Schools of Bedford and Oakham, and entered King's College, Cambridge, as an exhibitioner in 1877, taking the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1880. For many years he taught chemistry, physics, and mineralogy for the Cambridge examinations, and in 1895 he was elected to a fellowship at King's College, becoming a college lecturer and natural sciences tutor in the following year. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1895, and was awarded the Davy Medal in 1920 for his work on alloys. His original work on the metals attracted the attention of the Goldsmiths' Company, who endowed a readership in metallurgy at Cambridge; he was appointed to this office in 1908 and held it until his retirement in 1928. He was admitted to the Livery of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1909 and to the Court in 1913; he acted as Prime Warden during the year 1922–1923, and took a keen interest in the work of the Company's Assay Office.
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POPE, W. Mr. C. T. Heycock, F.R.S. Nature 127, 979–980 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127979a0
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