Joseph Kelly died on April 30th, 1928, after a very short illness.
For about 18 months he was an engineering pupil in the works of the General & Electrical Engineering Co., Earl’s Court, London. In 1901 he became a student of the Royal School of Mines, and on the completion of his course, after obtaining the Associateship R.S.M., he spent about three months at the School whilst engaged in research on cyanide solutions.
In 1905 he was appointed mining engineer to the Soemalata Mining and Smelting Co., Celebes, D. E. Indies, and in January, 1908, embarked in partnership in various private syndicates engaged on alluvial tin mining and rubber growing in the Federated Malay States.
For a brief period in 1913 he was consulting mining engineer to Messrs E.H. Hunter & Co., of Kobe, Japan, with which firm he afterwards co-operated in partnership as a syndicate owning a concession in Korean Manchuria.
In 1916 he came home and received a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and in 1918 was transferred to the Royal Air Force until demobilization.
For a period of about 18 months he was owner of the Allihies Copper Mines, and in March, 1919, he started practice as a consulting mining engineer in London. He always took a must active interest in the Royal School of Mines, especially as regards its social and athletic side, and was President of the R.S.M. Old Students’ Association in 1926.
Mr. Kelly was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1904 and was transferred to Associateship in 1907 and to membership in 1920.
Vol. 38, Trans IMM 1928-9, p.487
