John Percival Bolt died suddenly in Tanganyika Territory on May 27th, 1935, at the age of 32.
He entered the Royal School of Mines in 1920 and graduated with the Associateship in 1924, in the same year being awarded the degree of B.Sc. of London University.
In November, 1924, he went to India to join the staff of Messrs. John Taylor & Sons on the Mysore Gold Mine as assistant underground agent, and three years later he was employed on Malayan Tinfields, Ltd.
In 1930 he was appointed manager of the Tanganyika Central Gold Mine, Ltd., East Africa, but returned home in the following year to act as assistant in Mr. Hugh F. Marriott. He returned to East Africa in 1933, where he was engaged at the time of his death.
Mr. Bolt was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1924, and was transferred to Associateship in 1928.
Vol. 45, Trans I.M.M. 1935-36, pp. 508-9
