Stanley John Nathan died in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, in July, 1954, at the age of 64.
He entered the Freiberg School of Mines in 1909 and obtained the Engineering Diploma of the School in 1914. On the outbreak of the first world war he joined the Honourable Artillery Company and served until he was commissioned to 178 Tunnelling Coy., Royal Engineers, in February, 1916. In 1917 he was transferred to Intelligence Corps, 3rd Army H.Q. He was awarded the M.B.E. for his war service.
On demobilization in 1919 Mr. Nathan joined the staff of the Shell group and worked in Borneo as exploration and exploitation geologist with Sarawak Oilfield, Ltd., until 1923, when ill-health made it impossible for him to continue in his profession. In 1930, however, he resumed mining, working on his own account in Southern Rhodesia, and he later managed the Oslo and Claydon and other small mines. He was manager of Botha mine, Bindura, in 1937, and two years later became manager of Nando Gold Mining Co. He was subsequently appointed resident geologist at Wanderer mine from 1944 to 1946 and during the following two years was manager of Ntumbi Reefs, Ltd., Tanganyika Territory. At the end of 1948 he came to England on holiday, returning to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, in July, 1949, and retiring to Cape Province in 1951.
Mr. Nathan was elected a Student of the Institution in 1914 and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1923.
Vol. 64, Trans IMM 1954-55, p.195
