| Activity | Educated at Aysgarth School and Winchester, and pursued his Engineering studies at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne. He received his training in miningscience in South Wales, Northumberland, Scotland, and Germany, and in 1905 passed first in the examination for the First Class Colliery Manager's certificate. He then spent 2 years in America, Africa, and the Far East, investigating mining conditions, and later acted as resident consulting engineer for seven colliery companies in northern Mexico.
Member of the Royal Commission on Safety in Coal Mines. Chairman of the Kent District Mining Board. Chairman and Managing Director of Chislet Colliery. Ltd. ; Director and Mining Engineer, Harton Coal Co. Ltd. ; Director, John Bowes & Partners Ltd. ; Eglinton Magnesite Brick Co. Ltd. Consulting Mining Engineer to Messrs. Baldwins Ltd. Messrs. Guest, Keen & Baldwins Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. ; Messrs. International Nickel Co. Ltd.; Governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. Member of the Board of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Author of several technical papers and a treatise on Shaft Sinking. Awarded a Telford Gold Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1923 for a paper on Underground Waters in the Kent Coalfield |