Richard Vernon Garland died in Spain in July, 1925.
He came of mining stock, being the son of the late Richard Garland, who for many years was associated with the firm of John Taylor & Sons. The subject of this notice received his early technical training at the Birkbeck College, London, and in 1911 proceeded to Spain to take up an appointment as assistant metallurgist and assayer to the Cordoba Copper Co., Ltd., under the management of the firm already mentioned. On the expiration of the agreement in 1914 he returned to England for a few months occupied by study and visiting various mines and works, and in the same year went again to Spain to carry out prospecting and chemical work in the Province of Zaragoza for Messrs Dixon & Co.
After the outbreak of war he resigned this appointment to join H.M. Forces, and enlisted in September, 1914, but he was released from the Colours in March, 1916, and was transferred to the Metals Department of the Ministry of Munitions, in Birmingham. In 1920, on the conclusion of the special work in this department, he resumed his profession and went back to Spain, and remained there until his death, during the latter part of the period being the representative in that country of the Climax Rock Drill & Engineering Works, Ltd.
Mr. Garland was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1911, and was transferred to Associateship in 1916.
Vol. 38, Trans IMM 1928-29, pp.485-6
