Lewis Percy Cazalet died on April 25th, 1946, at Warmbaths, Transvaal, at the age of 73.
He received his mining education at the Camborne School of Mines from 1889 to 1893, where he graduated and gained two Silver medals.
For the following two years he was employed underground and on the reduction works at Knight’s Tribute and Van Ryn Gold Mines Estate, Ltd., Witwatersrand, becoming cyanide manager in 1895. A year later he left to do private reporting work in the Witwatersrand, and in 1897 was appointed surveyor to the Durban-Roodepoort Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and Vogelstruis Estates and Gold Mines, Ltd. He transferred in 1898 to a similar position with Nourse Deep, Ltd., and after a year was made acting manager and, later, manager. On the amalgamation of Nourse Deep with Henry Nourse Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and South Nourse, Ltd., he retained the managership, remaining there until 1910.
During the South African War he served for two years as captain with the 1st Batt. Railway Pioneer Regt., and until 1910 was a captain in the Rand Rifles.
From 1904, Mr. Cazalet had been a member of the Commission of Examiners for Mine Overseers and Mine Managers’ Certificates in South Africa. He was appointed consulting engineer at Johannesburg to the Central Mining Rand Mines group in 1910, a position which he held for ten years, and in 1920 began independent consulting work in the Transvaal. From 1934 to 1938 he was engaged by Johannesburg Gold Mining Corporation, Ltd., as consulting engineer, and then took up the appointment of manager to Village Main Reef Gold Mining Co. (1934), Ltd.
He had retired from professional work at the time of his death, having started farming at White River. He was the first president of the Association of Mine Managers of the Transvaal, and of the Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of South Africa.
Mr. Cazalet was elected a Member of the Institution in 1914.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, p. 612
