William Pellew-Harvey, who was President of the Institution in the Session 1931-32, died in a nursing home at Hove, Sussex, on 6th January, 1954, at the age of 90.
Educated at Truro, Cornwall, he spent three years in the Halford works, Swansea, of Messrs. Vivian and Sons, and the following six years with Messrs. John F. Penrose and Sons of Redruth, Cornwall. In 1889 Mr. Pellew-Harvey went to Canada, and practised as a metallurgist and mining engineer at Golden, B.C. In 1893 he moved his office to Vancouver and acted as consultant to various English and Canadian mining companies.
Mr. Pellew-Harvey returned to England in 1901, and set up in practice in London, under the style of Messrs. Pellew-Harvey and Fell, the name of the firm being changed in 1909 to Messrs. Pellew-Harvey and Co. — Mr. Pellew-Harvey being the senior partner, a position which he retained until he retired from active professional work in 1942.
He was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1899 and was Member of Council from 1920 to 1945. His Presidential Address — ‘Reflections on the relative effect of the fall in metal prices on base-metal mining compared with that of gold’ – was published in the Transactions, vol. 40, 1930-31.
Vol. 63, Trans I.M.M., 1953-54, p.320
