Henry Rose Martin c1907
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Henry Rose Martin died at Johannesburg, Transvaal, in May, 1930, at the age of 55.
He received his technical training at the Middlesbrough High School and Durham College of Science, and in 1896 went to New Zealand, where for upwards of ten years he was engaged in coal and alluvial gold mining.
Proceeding to South Africa, he was for two years assistant to the Government agricultural chemist at Pretoria, and in 1910 went to Rhodesia, where he resumed direct mining work.
From 1912 he was engaged on the Rand on various mines until 1917, when he went to British East Africa as manager of the Kilimafeza gold mine in the neighbourhood of Nairobi, and while thus employed he engaged in general consulting work.
Returning to the Transvaal, he was appointed general manager and consulting engineer of the Modder West Gold Mining Co., Ltd., and subsequently consulting engineer of South African Exports, Ltd., and the South African Asbestos Mines, Ltd., in Pretoria. From 1920 he engaged in private practice as a consulting engineer in Johannesburg.
Mr. Martin was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1919.
Vol. 40, Trans IMM 1930-31, pp.452
