William A. Heywood died at University College Hospital, London, on April 17th, 1928, at the age of 60.
An American by birth, he spent the greater part of his life in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. His special line was the metallurgy of copper, and from the year 1883 to 1906 he was employed as smelter manager or chief chemist of at number of copper mines and works, including the New Jersey Extraction Works, the electrolytic refinery at Anaconda, the works of the Mond Nickel Co. in Canada, the Tennessee Copper Co., and others. In 1907 he went to Spassky, in Siberia, and in the following year he was appointed consulting metallurgist to a group of mines in South Africa, Chile, Spain, Germany, Norway, and Venezuela. During the war he was metallurgical chemist to the Crittall Manufacturing Co., Braintree, Essex, and in 1923 he paid another visit to the United States.
His later years were spent in London, where he still practised in a consultative capacity as occasion arose. He attended a number of the General Meetings of the Institution, and took part in discussions relating to his particular speciality. In 1923 he contributed a paper, “Notes on the selection of a Copper-smelting Plant’ (Trans. Vol. xxxii, pp.221-41).
Mr. Heywood was elected a Member of the Institution in 1908.
Vol. 38, Trans IMM 1928-29, p.486
