Bessemer Gold Medal: Award to Mr. Harold Wright

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MR. HAROLD WRIGHT, chief metallurgist to Dorman Long and Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough, has been awarded the Bessemer Gold Medal by the Iron and Steel Institute in recognition of his "valuable contributions made over many years to improve the technique of iron and steel manufacture". The Medal, which is the highest award conferred by the Institute, will be presented to Mr. Wright by the president, Mr. Arthur Dorman, at the annual meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute in London on May 9. Mr. Harold Wright has been a member of the Institute since 1902 and has served on its Council; he is a past president of the Cleveland Scientific and Technical Institution and of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. He started work at the North Eastern Steel Works. While with Sir Bernard Samuelson, Mr. Wright took an active part in the supply of molten basic iron to Dorman Long's Britannia Works when the latter firm introduced the hot metal process forty years ago. While in charge of the Newport coke ovens, Mr. Wright promoted the use of coke oven gas for town purposes. He first made the suggestion in 1902, but it was 1913 when the supply was first established. Mr. Harold Wright also possesses considerable geological knowledge, and has done a great deal of exploration work in connexion with the Cleveland ironstone deposits. He was also responsible for the introduction into local blast furnace practice of the use of rich foreign ores in the Cleveland burden. Mr. Harold Wright was appointed chief metallurgist to Dorman Long and Co., Ltd., in 1918. Last December the Company inaugurated a triennial Harold Wright Lecture to be given before the Cleveland Scientific and Technical Institution in recognition of his long and valuable service.