Thomas Graham Martyn died at Johannesburg, Transvaal, on October 24th, 1926, at the age of 56.
On completion of his general education at Truro College, he went to the Camborne School of Mines in 1888, where for two years he studied under the late J.J. Beringer and William Thomas. His success in examinations in the Cambridge Senior Local and Science and Art Departments secured for him a Royal Exhibition enabling him to take the course for Associateship of the Royal School of Mines which he obtained in 1893, with the special subject of metallurgy. For the next two years he studied tin dressing in Cornish mines, and whilst continuing this work he joined the staff of Messrs. Henderson & Sons’ Mining School at Truro, when from 1895 to 1899 he taught principally applied mechanics, steam, and machine drawing.
In 1899 he contributed a paper to the Transactions (vol. vii) on ‘An Improved Muffle Furnace for Burning Coke.’ From the latter date until 1910 he was head of the metallurgical department of the Central Technical Schools for Cornwall, at Truro, and during his -vacation engaged in investigations in grading, classifying and valuing minerals. In 1910 he left Cornwall for South Africa, and from that date devoted his energies almost exclusively to the gold mines of the Transvaal.
Mr. Martyn was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1895, and was transferred to Associateship in 1897 and to Membership in 1905.
Vol. 37, Trans IMM 1927-28, p.577
