Hubert Francis Gardner Roose died at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, as the result of an accident, on April 12th, 1929, at the age of 47.
He entered the Royal School of Mines in 1898, and obtained the A.R.S.M. six years later, having for several years acted as assistant to the late Professor L.H. Cooke in the surveying class.
In 1905, he went to Egypt and the Sudan as assistant engineer to the Egyptian Mines Exploration Co., and in the following year he was appointed mine manager and chief engineer to the Cia. Anglo-Chilena de Collahuasi, in Chili. In 1909, he was employed as assistant manager of the Sociedad dé Minas i Fundicion de Carrigal, also in Chili. After a year’s interval during which he was engaged in a consultative capacity, he became manager of the Dulcinea mine of the Copper Mines of Copiapo, Ltd., which was followed by a spell of reporting, valuing, etc., on his own account.
During the war he obtained a commission in the Royal Engineers, and after demobilization he went on a prospecting tour in the Republic of Colombia. This was followed by engagements, sampling and reporting on mineral deposits in England and Spain, but latterly his health, which had been undermined by shell shock during the war, precluded him from lengthy trips.
Mr. Roose was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1905, and was transferred to Associateship in 1910, and to Membership in 1915.
Vol. 39, Trans I.M.M., 1929-30, pp.701
