Willoughby Fitzgerald Norbury died in Egypt in June, 1911.
From 1894 to 1897 he was studying at the Camborne School of Mines, where he obtained it first-class certificate in the mining course. In 1897 he was appointed surveyor on the Libiola Copper Mine; in 1899 he took the post of assayer and surveyor to the Geelong Gold Mining Co., Rhodesia, and in 1901 was offered the same position on the Mozambique Macequece, Ltd.
Transferring his activities to Egypt in 1903, he became manager of the Nile Valley Block E., Ltd., and in 1906 was similarly employed by the Nile Valley (New) Company, Ltd., while from 1907 to the date of his death he was occupied in other mining enterprises in the same country.
Mr. Norbury was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1907.
Vol. 21, Trans IMM 1911-12, p.729
