Charles Parker died in the United States on December 15th, 1914.
He began his professional career in 1875, when he was articled to a civil engineer, meanwhile studying at the Yorkshire College at Leeds. On the completion of his articles he went to the United States in 1881, and engaged in a further course of study, taking up metallurgy and chemistry at the Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey.
In 1888 he went to Central America as assistant engineer and assayer to the Rosario Mining Co., Honduras, and from 1885 to 1890 he was engaged in reporting on the volcanic district of Amatitlan for the Government of Guatemala and on mines in that republic and in Bolivia and California for private enterprises.
In 1891 he obtained an appointment as Government Engineer in Western Australia, and in the two years following he was in South Africa acting as assistant engineer on a concentration plant in Johannesburg, as a mine surveyor at Kimberley, and later as engineer to the South African Trust and Finance Co. In 1894 he was back again in Central America as a mine superintendent and in the following year he was engaged in inspecting and reporting on mines in the United States. Since that date he had generally resided in the United States, where he was variously engaged in private and consultative practice.
Mr. Parker was elected a Member of the Institution in 1895.
Vol. 24, Trans I.M.M., 1914-15, p.512
