Edward William Macleod Elliott died in Rhodesia on July 17th, 1943, at the age of 54.
He was born in Grenada, British West Indies, and educated at Bedford Grammar School and Birmingham University. In 1910 he went to South Africa to take up a position in the reduction works of East Rand Proprietary Mines, Ltd., and occupied various positions with that company until 1917. He was then appointed mine captain with Geduld Proprietary Mines, Ltd., and in 1918 joined Brakpan Mines, Ltd., in a similar capacity.
Early in 1920 he left the Union for the Belgian Congo, where he was an assistant manager and later manager on the staff of the Union Miniere du Haut Katanga at their Likasi-Chituru group of mines, and remained there until 1936. In that year he took a position with Rezende Mines, Ltd., and in 1938 became mine manager to the Sherwood Starr Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Southern Rhodesia.
Mr. Elliott, who held the Mine Manager’s Certificate of the Union of South Africa, served with the Imperial Light Horse in the South-West African Campaign.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1924 and was transferred to Membership in 1926.
Vol. 53, Trans IMM 1943-4, p.429
