Editing Henry Bessemer (section)

==Father: Anthony Bessemer==
Bessemer's father, [[Anthony Bessemer|Anthony]], was born in London into a [[Huguenot]] family, but moved to [[Paris]] when he was about 21 years old.<ref name="JPHS">{{cite journal|title=A. Bessemer's Specimen of Printing Types, 1830|journal=Journal of the Printing Historical Society|year=1969|volume=5}}</ref> He was an inventor who, while engaged by the Paris Mint, made a machine for making medallions that could produce steel dies from a larger model. He became a member of the [[French Academy of Sciences]],{{sfn|Jeans|1884|pp=12–13}} for his improvements to the optical microscope when he was 26. He was forced to leave Paris by the [[French Revolution]], and returned to Britain. There he invented a process for making gold chains, which was successful, and enabled him to buy a small estate in the village of [[Charlton, Hertfordshire|Charlton]], near [[Hitchin]] in [[Hertfordshire]], where Henry was born.<ref>{{cite news|title=Charlton House in England, Hitchin|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/9821880/Homes-for-sale-with-blue-plaques.html?frame=2460183|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130065456/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/periodproperty/9821880/Homes-for-sale-with-blue-plaques.html?frame=2460183|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-30|newspaper=Daily Telegraph}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Chartered Mechanical Engineer: The Journal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Volume 12|page=519|year=1954|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVhVAAAAYAAJ|access-date=8 October 2018}}</ref> According to Bessemer he was given his name by his godfather [[Caslon Type Foundry|Henry Caslon]], who employed his father as a [[punchcutting|punchcutter]].{{sfn|Bessemer|1905|p=6}}<ref name="1880 Printing Times and Lithographer">{{cite journal |title=Sir Henry Bessemer's Connection with Printing |journal=The Printing Times and Lithographer |date=1880 |pages=226–7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3ZQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA226 |access-date=11 February 2019}}</ref>