Percy Gilchrist

This enabled the production of low-phosphorus steel from local high-phosphorus ores by changing the standard acidic process to a basic process which meant that steel became cheaply available to British industry – low phosphorus ores requiring dearer importation.

[3] It involved melting pig iron in a converter similar to that used in the Bessemer process and subjecting it to prolonged blowing.

He or his family had him admitted to well-appointed private asylum, Holloway Sanatorium from 5 March 1899 for just under one year, then discharged into single care.

[4] He was elected vice-president of the Iron and Steel Institute and in 1891 a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He had married Nora, the daughter of Captain L N Fitzmaurice of the Royal Navy.