William Hornblower Marston died at Schumacher, Ontario, in the autumn of 1915, aged 33 years.
He was educated at King Edward’s High School, Birmingham, and at Birmingham University, and in 1904 obtained the B.Sc. degree of the University of London. For the next two years he was in London, on the staff of the Iron and Coal Trades Review, but in 1907 he returned to Birmingham University, and spent a year studying mine surveying, ore dressing and assaying.
In September, 1908, he went out to Canada, and the remaining years of his life were spent on mining properties in the Dominion. After two years at Cobalt, with the Drummond Mines, Ltd., and the Temiskaming Mining Co., Ltd., he went west to British Columbia, and for a year was in the employ of the Portland Canal Mining Co., Ltd. He returned to Ontario in 1911, and accepted an appointment with the Jupiter Mines, Ltd., Aura Lake, Porcupine, which he held till the time of his death.
Mr. Marston was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1908.
Vol. 25, Trans IMM 1915-16, p.402
