RILEY Edward

Edward Riley (1831-1914) was a metallurgical chemist.
The following biographical notes have been reported:

Edward Riley was born on 3 August 1831 in London, the son of Richard Riley and Mary Mitchell. His father died in 1838 and his mother subsequently remarried David Mitchell and they had a daughter Mary Wilson Mitchell who was Edward’s half-sister. Edward married Emma Stockwell from Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 17 October 1867 at St Bartholomew the Great – they had no children.
… Edward Riley was educated at King’s College School, London and at the Putney Civil Engineering College. Mr Riley was intimately associated with the early experiments in connection with the Bessemer process of steel manufacture and he did much analytical work for Sir Henry Bessemer during the time he was developing the Bessemer process. In 1853, he was appointed Chemist at Dowlais Ironworks, South Wales, where he carried out the first experiments on the Bessemer process. Three years later he started a private practice as an analytical and consulting chemist based in Kensington, London, and in 1869, he moved his laboratory to Finsbury Square …
He devised many methods for the estimation of the constituents of iron, steel and slags, and was involved in the development of the basic or Thomas Gilchrist process. In 1904, Mr F W Harbord joined him as a partner in his firm, which became known as Riley and Harbord. …
He was awarded the Bessemer medal at a meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1913. …

Edward RILEY died on 12 September 1914.