John Henry Cordner-James died after a short illness at his home at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on April 20th, 1946, at the age of 88.
He was trained from 1874 under his father, Mr. A.T. James, of Redruth, Cornwall, manager of Wheal Basset and South Wheal Francis mines, and left England in 1877 on his appointment as assistant manager and surveyor to New Quebrada Land and Copper Co., Ltd., and in 1880 was engaged in examining the mines and forests of the Gustav and Carlberg Copper Co., Sweden.
From 1881 to 1883 he held the appointment of general manager of the Indian Trevelyan Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and in 1884 returned to the New Quebrada Co. as professional adviser. For six months in the following year Mr. Cordner-James held the position of general manager of the New Chile Gold Mining Co., Ltd., in Venezuela, but returned to England and set up in practice in London as consulting engineer.
In 1888 he went to the Transvaal as general manager of the United Pioneer Gold Mining Company at Barberton, and from 1890 to 1891 was engaged as consulting mining and metallurgical engineer in Johannesburg. On his return to England in 1891 he resumed practice in London as senior partner in the firm of James Brothers.
Mr. Cordner-James was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1899, and served on the Council almost continuously from 1901 to 1920.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, pp. 613-14
