William Gladstone Howard died at Cape Town, South Africa, on 13th February, 1960, at the age of 81.
Mr. Howard received his training at the Camborne School of Metalliferous Mining, Cornwall, between 1896 and 1901, being awarded a first class Diploma in mining, and having gained practical experience at tin mines around Camborne and at the lead-zinc mines at Halkyn, North Wales.
His first appointment was in Matabeleland on the engineering staff of Rhodesia Exploration and Development Co., Ltd., from 1900 to 1902. He was then engaged for two years as head surveyor and assayer for Globe and Phoenix Gold Mining Co., Ltd. , in Southern Rhodesia, before becoming mine manager until 1910. Mr. Howard left for the United States where he reported on gold and silver properties in Nevada and California and returning to England to work in London during 1912 and 1913.
Between 1913 and 1917 he was superintendent of Tavoy Concessions and Hermyingi Mining Co., Ltd., Burma, working tin and wolfram. He returned to Southern Rhodesia in 1918 and did reporting work there on gold and on tin in Portuguese East Africa, also taking up farming. From 1930 to 1934 he managed a smallworking on his own account in Southern Rhodesia. When the war came in 1939 he settled down to farming near Bulawayo until his retirement in 1957 to Cape Town.
Mr. Howard joined the Institution as an Associate Member in 1937.
Vol. 70, Trans IMM 1960-61, pp.217-18
