Albert Edward Pengilly died at S. João da Madeira, Portugal, on January 5th, 1929, at the age of 66.
From 1877 to 1881 he worked as assistant to his father at the Falmouth Chemical Works, Ltd., and from the latter date until 1889, also with his father, he was employed at the Trevince Chemical Works, Scorrier. During that period he studied surveying with Mr. Brunton of Redruth, and Mr. William Thomas of the Camborne School of Mines, and assaying with the late J.J. Beringer of Camborne. In 1889 he was appointed assistant manager of the Esperanza arsenic and silver mines in Spain, returning to England two years later as assistant manager of the Tavey United Mines and Arsenic Works, Tavistock.
In 1892, he went to the Republic of Colombia as assistant manager of the Colombia Gold Mines, Ltd., and the Toturna Alluvial Gold Mines, Ltd. Three years later he was occupied in examining properties in Spain and Portugal, and in 1896 he was offered the position of manager of the Anglo-Peninsula Mining and Chemical Co., Ltd., and for 34 years had sole control of the Pintor group of mines belonging to that company, probably the largest producers of arsenic in the world. He was the first man to manufacture arsenic on a commercial scale in either Spain or Portugal.
Mr. Pengilly was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1893 and was transferred to Membership in 1910.
Vol. 39, Trans I.M.M., 1929-30, pp.699-700
