Burton Ireland Collings died in London in September, 1930, at the age of 55.
He was apprenticed for three years to a firm of mining machinery manufacturers in Cornwall before entering the Camborne School of Mines in 1895.
Two years later he went to British Guiana for the Barr-Robertson Syndicate, and in 1898 proceeded to South Africa, to work under Messrs. Eckstein & Co., and incidentally to take part in the final scenes of the Boer War. He remained in the Transvaal for about eight years, and then migrated to Rhodesia, where, with the exception of a brief trip to the Gold Coast, he spent the remainder of his professional career, mostly in private practice.
Mr. Collings was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1907, and transferred to Membership in 1913.
Vol. 40, Trans I.M.M. 1930-31, pp. 448-9
