William Stronach Lockhart died in London on August 12th, 1924.
On completing the usual school course, he spent three years in Germany, where he had frequent opportunities of visiting the mines and dressing-floors of the Harz and Thuringian mountains.
Returning to England, he was for five years in the shops and drawing office of Messrs. Richard Moreland & Son, Old Street, London, during which period he attended lectures on metallurgy by Dr. Percy, end spent most of his vacation among the mines and dressing-floors of Cumberland. Two years in Messrs. Easton & Anderson’s works at Erith were followed by a similar period in.
Japan, when he was engaged on the erection of a paper-mill.
Returning to London, he spent several years as engineer to the Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd., of Chester and in the course of that work acquired at considerable knowledge of crushing operations. He also was concerned in the development of the railway and mines of Gellivara, Norway. In 1889 he went to Burma as engineer-in-chief of the Burma Ruby mines, and henceforth to a large extent specialized in gem-mining and recovery, of which he made particular study.
Mr. Lockhart was elected a Member of the Institution in 1896.
Vol. 34, Trans IMM 1924-25, p.569
