Paul Sidney Couldrey died on 16th October, 1917, at Didsbury, Manchester, at the age of 71.
He began his career in 1892 as junior draughtsman in the offices of Mr. J.W.C. Haldane, civil engineer of Liverpool, and from 1894 to 1897 was at Victoria University, Liverpool, where he obtained the B.Sc. degree in Engineering. He then attended the Royal School of Mines from 1897 to 1900 and gained the A.R.S.M. in Mining and Metallurgy.
In 1901 he was appointed surveyor and assayer to the Cerro Muriano copper mines in the Province of Cordoba, Spain, and during the summer of that year acted as superintendent of the Herrerias mine in the Province of Huelva. He went to Canada in 1902 and until 1909 was employed its manager of Le Roi No.2, Ltd., at Rossland, British Columbia, and was also at that time manager of Van Roi silver-lead mines at Slocan. During the same period he visited Australia (in 1904-5) to examine mining properties for Messrs. Alex. Hill & Stewart of London. Mr. Couldrey was from 1909 to 1910 mining superintendent of the Mother Lode mine of B.C. Copper Co., at Greenwood, B.C., and then accepted the appointment of general mining superintendent at Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation, Peru.
He retired to England in 1917 and served with the Royal Engineers until 1919.
From 1919 to 1920 he represented the firm of Alex. Hill & Stewart in British Columbia, and was resident manager of Le Roi No.2 Ltd., but left to join the Rio Tinto Co., Ltd., early in 1921 as assistant manager in Spain. He became general manager in 1927, and was appointed consulting engineer in 1932, which position he held until his retirement in 1937
Mr. Couldrey was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 57, Trans I.M.M. 1947-8, p. 471
