William Campbell died in October, 1952, in Wales. He was 73 years of age.
Mr. Campbell obtained his technical education during a five-year mining course at various centres of the Ayrshire County Committee on Education and at Kilmarnock Technical School. He gained a first class Colliery Manager’s Certificate in 1904 and was appointed manager of New Cumnock Collieries, Ltd.
He was at Knockshinnoch collieries of that company for four years and was then transferred to their Afton No.1 colliery. He remained in that position until 1913 when he went to Peru as manager of the Santa Clara group of mines of the Backus and Johnstone Mining Co., and from 1916 to 1922 held the post of superintendent.
He resumed mining in 1929 and worked for ten years in Yugoslavia as mines superintendent of Trepca Mines, Ltd. He returned to England in 1940 to take up the position of mining engineer to the Ministry of Supply Iron and Steel Control, Home Ore Department. A year later he became chief mining engineer of that department and remained with the Ministry until his retirement.
A Mr. Campbell was elected a Member of the Institution in 1944.
Vol. 62, Trans I.M.M. 1952-53, p. 417
