Beauchamp Lennox Gardiner died on 28th June, 1956, at the age of 73.
Mr. Gardiner was an Australian. He studied mining at Adelaide University, gaining the B.Sc. degree in 1902 and the Diploma in mining engineering and metallurgy in 1904, and became a Fellow of the South Australian School of Mines.
He worked as mine surveyor and metallurgist at Great Tower Hill Gold Mining Co., Western Australia, from 1905 to 1907 and subsequently was employed until 1911 by Bewick, Moreing and Co. in Kalgoorlie as metallurgist on a number of mines including Burbanks Birthday, Bellevue, Vivian and Sons of Gwalia.
Mr. Gardiner went to Southern Rhodesia in 1911 on taking up the position of assistant consulting engineer to London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Co., Ltd. He left to join H.M. Forces in 1914 and was on active service until 1916, when he set up a private consulting practice in Bulawayo. In the following year he became manager of Connemara Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and two years later, in 1919, joined Willoughbys Consolidated Co., Ltd., in Southern Rhodesia, as consulting engineer. From 1927 he was general manager and consulting engineer, a position which he held for 23 years until his retirement in 1950. Mr. Gardiner retained an active interest in Rhodesia Cement, Ltd., of which company he was the first chairman.
He was the author of several technical papers published by the Chamber of Mines in Western Australia and also in the Journal of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa.
Mr. Gardiner was made a C.B.E. in the New Year’s Honours List in 1949. He was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1924 and was also a member of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Vol. 67, Trans IMM 1957-58, p.30
