Matthew Taylor Brown died rather suddenly, from pneumonia, at Edinburgh, on January 4th, 1932, at the advanced age of 78.
He served an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering from 1870 to 1875, and on completion of his articles entered the engineering course at Glasgow University, where he was awarded the Thomson Experimental Scholarship, and graduated as B.Sc. in 1878.
He acted in various capacities, including those of manager and resident engineer, for engineering firms from then onwards, and started practice as a consulting engineer in Glasgow and London in 1885. From 1895 he was retained as technical adviser for sundry mining companies, and did some notable work in that connexion for the Cassel Gold Extracting Co., for the Lisbon-Berlyn and other South African mines, and in Western Australia. Conjointly with Mr. R.R. Tatlock, the City Analyst of Glasgow, he was retained by the Cassel Co. to make a report on their newly-introduced process, which was largely instrumental in securing the success of the treatment.
Mr. M. Taylor Brown was elected a Member of the Institution in 1899.
Vol. 42, Trans I.M.M. 1932-3, pp. 610
