Richard Edward Ernest Biggs Doherty died of tuberculosis at Cradock, Cape Province, South Africa, on September 20th, 1918, at the age of 36.
He took his degree as Bachelor of Arts at Trinity College, Dublin, in December, 1905, and a similar degree at Cambridge in May, 1908, where he also studied civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. He then entered for the three years’ course at the Camborne School of Mines obtaining the School Diploma of the 1st Class, and he was awarded the 1st Honours City and Guilds Certificate by the Board of Education, both as regards the raising and the preparation of ores.
From June to November, 1911, he acted as sampler on the Nourse Mines, and in the next few months he transferred first to the Durban Boodepoort Deep Mine and subsequently to the Simmer East, as sampler and surveyor and as development sampler and surveyor and acting shift boss. From March to August, 1912, he was laid aside by an accident, and then for about six months was engaged on reporting and prospecting and on electrical engineering in the Transvaal. He then was appointed engineer and manager of several tin properties near Cape Town. Subsequent to 1918, he became assistant manager in the Union of S.A. Public Works Department, and was engaged in the Irrigation Department on the Olifants River, at Klaner, Cape Province, and later at the Fish River irrigation work at Cradock.
Mr. Doherty was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1910, and transferred to Associateship in 1915.
Vol. 29, Trans IMM 1919-20, p.423
