Editing Henry Bessemer (section)

==Honours and legacy==
Bessemer was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] by [[Queen Victoria]] for his contribution to science on 26 June 1879, and in the same year was made a fellow of the [[Royal Society]].{{refn|{{London Gazette|issue=24739|page=2406|date= 1 Jul 1879}}{{efn|Coincidentally, on the same page of the London Gazette there is the knighting of [[Thomas Bouch]] who the following December became infamous worldwide as the designer and railway engineer of the Tay Bridge.}}}} An honorary membership was conferred on Bessemer by the [[Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland]] in 1891.<ref>[http://www.iesis.org/honorary-fellows.html IESIS Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland]. Iesis.org. Retrieved on 1 July 2015.</ref> He was elected an International Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1894.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Henry+Bessemer&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1895, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060618085806/http://amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf |archive-date=2006-06-18 |url-status=live|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=24 June 2011}}</ref> Sheffield's Kelham Island Industrial Heritage Museum maintains an early example of a Bessemer converter for public viewing.

A school was named after him in the town of [[Hitchin]], and when the school was demolished in the 1980s the new road built in its place was named Bessemer Close in 1995. Bessemer Way in [[Rotherham]] is also named in his honour. In 2009, the public house "The Fountain" in Sheffield city centre was renamed "The Bessemer" in homage to Henry Bessemer, who had a huge impact on the [[Steel City]]'s development. In Workington, Cumbria, the local Wetherspoons pub is now named after him.

In 2002 the [[Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining]] (IOM3) was established from mergers encompassing historical organisations including the [[Iron and Steel Institute]], of which Bessemer was president from 1871 to 1873; the latter organisation instituted the [[Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining#Awards|Bessemer Gold Medal]] under his tenure. IOM3 still recognises Bessemer's legacy with an annual award of the medal for outstanding services to the steel industry; recent recipients include [[Indira Samarasekera]].

That a man who did so much for industrial development did not receive higher recognition from his own government was a source of deep regret for English engineers, who alluded to the fact that in the United States, where the Bessemer process found much use, eight cities or towns bore his name.<ref>{{NIE|wstitle=Bessemer, Henry|year=1905|inline=1}}</ref>