Lindow Hereward Leofric Huddart died [in 1917 = RSM Register] on active service in German East Africa of syncope*, following an attack of malarial fever. He was about 46 years of age, and when his death occurred was serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers with General Cunliffe’s East African Force. Joining the Nigerian forces at the outbreak of the war, he went through the campaign in the Cameroons, and on its conclusion transferred into the Royal Engineers.
He was educated at Rugby and at Cambridge University, where he took the Engineering Tripos in 1901, and proceeded to M.A. four years later. After leaving Cambridge he entered the Royal School of Mines, and obtained the Associateship in 1903. In the same year he was awarded the ‘Arthur Claudet’ Students’ Prize of the Institution for his paper on ‘St. David’s Gold Mine, North Wales.’ Mr. Huddart had worked on this mine as a miner during one of his long vacations; and he had also worked as a student on various collieries in the South Wales district.
In November, 1908, he was appointed by the Colonial Office to the post of assistant principal to the Mineral Survey of Southern Nigeria, and for some years spent alternate periods of prospecting in his district and working in London on the material he had collected. In 1905 he was elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and shortly afterwards read a paper before that body on ‘Sketch Mapping in Southern Nigeria.’
At the beginning of 1908 Mr. Huddart made a trip to Freetown, Sierra Leone; and at the end of the same year was appointed Inspector of Mines in Northern Nigeria. He maintained his official connection with that colony until the outbreak of war, and was a member of the committee dealing with the revision of mining laws in Nigeria.
Mr. Huddart was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1902, and was transferred to Associateship in 1905.
Vol. 26, Trans IMM 1916-17, pp.266-7
* syncope = temporary loss of consciousness caused by a fall in blood pressure.
From: FIND A GRAVE (Web)
Birth: 2 Nov 1880, Victoria, Australia
Death: 5 Feb 1917 (aged 36) Tanzania
Buried: Morogoro Cemetery, Morogoro, Morogoro, Tanzania – PLOT IV. B. 13.
From: Cambridge Alumni 1752-1900, Volume 3, page 183
Huddart, Lindow Hereward Leofric. Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, Oct. 1898. [2nd] son of James, Esq., F.R.G.S. [founder of the Canadian-Australian R.M.S. Line], of South Kensington Hotel, Queen’s Gate Terrace, London, S.W. Born November 2, 1880. School, Rugby, Matric. Michs. 1898; B.A. 1901; M.A. 1905. Associate of the Royal School of Mines, 1903; of Inst. of Mining and Metallurgy. Appointed to Mineral Survey of Southern Nigeria, 1903. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Lieut., R.E.: attached Nigeria Regt., West African Frontier Force). Died of malaria, Feb. 12, 1917. Buried at Duthuni, E. Africa. (Rugby Sch. Reg., which gives date of death as Feb. 15; Univer. War List.)
