Noel Gordon Hackney died at his home in Hampstead on June 25th, 1938, at the age of 63.
He was educated at Bedford School and from 1892 to 1895 he was student and later assistant in the assay office of H.A. Penrose & Co. of Swansea, also attending evening classes at the Swansea Technical Institute.
In 1895 he was appointed head assayer and chemist at the Swanson, Smelting Works and two years later left for Australia to take up a position as assayer and chemist with the Lake View South Gold Mine (W.A.) Ltd.: he was acting manager of this mine in 1901. In the following year he left Australia for South America as general manager of the Venez Syndicate, Ltd., in Venezuela, and from then until his retirement he was associated with other companies operating in the Republic. On the formation of the Bolivar Venezuela Gold Mines, Ltd., he became both a director and a member of the technical committee of the company.
Mr. Hackney was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1900 and was transferred to Membership in 1906.
Vol. 48, Trans IMM 1938-39, p.832
