Biographical entry Barton, Robert (1839 - 1930)

Summary

Robert Barton was Deputy Master of Royal Mint's Melbourne branch from 1895. He joined the Mint when it first opened in 1869 as one of only two assayers and helped refine and speed up the process of assaying precious metals. It is thought that before joining the Mint he worked as an assayer for the Bank of England. Barton was a Fellow of the Chemical Society and a member of the Royal Society of Victoria from 1872.

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Events

1869 - 1887

Career position - Assayer at the Royal Mint in Melbourne

1872 -

Award - Fellow of the Chemical Society of London (FCS)

1887 - 1895

Career position - Superintendent of the Royal Mint in Melbourne

1895 - 1904

Career position - Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in Melbourne

Published resources

Journal Articles

• Barton, C.T., Barton R. and Hardie, G., 'Improvements in the Refining of Impure Commercial Sugar (Patent appl., date ??)', The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, vol. 1, Society of Chemical Industry, London, 1882, p. 283. Details
• Barton, Robert, 'On "Surcharge" of the Bullion Assay', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. 12, Wilson & Mackinnon, Melbourne, 1874, pp. 89-92. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Barton Robert', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476463. Details

See also

• Bolton, H. C.; Williams, N. H., 'Weighing and Assay in the Early Days of the Melbourne Branch of the Royal Mint', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 1, 2002, pp. 47-66. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR02003.htm. Details