Reginald Weymouth Rice died in Northern Nigeria in January, 1923, at the age of 39.
Educated at Truro College from 1898 to 1899, he occupied the next six years in the study of chemistry, assaying, geology, and surveying, at the Central Technical Schools for Cornwall and the Redruth School of Mines, eventually being engaged as assistant instructor in surveying to-those schools.
In 1906 he was appointed surveyor and assayer of the Ouro Preto gold mines of Brazil, in which position he remained until the outbreak of war. After serving in H.M. Forces as Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery, he went to Northern Nigeria to take up an appointment with the Niger Co., Ltd., at Tudun Wada.
Mr. Rice was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1909, and was transferred to Associateship in the same year.
Vol. 34, Trans I.M.M., 1924-25, p.573
