Charles T. Heycock

Charles Thomas Heycock was a British chemist and soldier, born on 21 August 1858 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, the youngest of ten children of Frederick Heycock and Mary Heywood. He was educated at Bedford School and at Oakham and went up to Kings College, Cambridge, in 1877, gaining the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1880. He was elected to a Fellowship at Kings College in 1895 and became a College Lecturer and Natural Sciences Tutor the following year. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and was awarded its Davy Medal in 1920 on the ground of his work in physical chemistry and more especially on the composition and constitution of alloys. His original work on metals inspired the Goldsmiths Company to endow a Readership in Metallurgy at Cambridge, to which he was appointed in 1908. With his lifelong friend Francis Henry Neville he published many papers on alloys, including copper-tin and gold-aluminium alloys, and he commanded a Volunteer battalion of the Suffolk Regiment until 1902. He died on 3 June 1931.