Edward Thomas Borlase died in Carlisle on November 28th, 1939, at the age of 56.
From 1898 to 1901 he served an apprenticeship in lead, coal and iron mines in the north of England, where he obtained experience in general mine office work and practical underground mining, and he then entered the Camborne School of Mines. On completion of his course there he was appointed assistant to the general manager of Greenside Lead and Silver Mining Co., Ltd., and from 1905 he was for three years lecturer and demonstrator in metal mining and mineralogy at Birmingham University, where he received the degree of B.Sc. in mining.
In 1909 he went to Spain as assistant to the manager of the Calamon Lead and Zinc Mining Co., Ltd., at Cordoba; in 1912 he was appointed engineer in charge of a section of the Rio Tinto Mines, Ltd., and in the following year was chief of mines and acting manager of the Huelva Copper and Sulphur Co., Ltd.
In 1915 he joined H.M. Forces and served in France; first in the Royal Artillery and finally as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery.
On the conclusion of hostilities he returned to Spain, where he was for three years mines manager of the Luchana Mining Co., Ltd., Bilbao, and for a similar period assistant manager to the Orconera Iron Ore. Co., Ltd. For a short time he was in practice as a consulting mining engineer in Bilbao, but in 1926 he returned to England to take up the position of manager of the Greenside Mining Co., Ltd., in Cumberland.
He then joined the staff of the British Non-Ferrous Mining Corporation, Ltd., first as manager at Viséu, in Portugal, and afterwards at Halkyn, North Wales, where he was mine superintendent. Sometime before his death he was in charge of the Caldbeck Mines, in Cumberland.
Mr. Borlase was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1915, and was elected an Associate in 1910.
Vol. 50, Trans I.M.M. 1940-41, p. 541
