Claude Stanley Pearson died of pneumonia following influenza in the Naraguta Hospital on November 15th, 1918, aged 31 years.
He carried out during 1908 to 1911 a systematic course of instruction in building construction at the Regent Street Polytechnic, land surveying at the same school and at the Norwood Polytechnic; practical laboratory work and assaying, also metallurgy, at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute; mine surveying at the Cambrian School of Mines, Porth; and assaying, surveying, metallurgy, mineralogy and mining engineering at the Birkbeck Mining Institute. During that period he also gained practical experience on the Trevega tin mines and the mine of the St. Ives Consolidated Mining Co., in Cornwall. For about fifteen months after completion of his training, he was employed as engineer in the mining machinery department of the Sturtevant Engineering Co.
In May, 1913, he went out to Nigeria to take up the position of assistant engineer to the Lafon River Tin Areas (Nigeria) Ltd., with which company he had a three and a-half years’ contract. On the completion of that term he joined the staff of the Ninghi (Nigeria) Tin Co., Ltd., and at the date of his death was acting manager in the absence of the general manager on leave.
Mr. Pearson was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1910, and transferred to Associateship in 1915.
Vol. 29, Trans I.M.M., 1919-20, pp.433-4
