Henry Claude Taylor died suddenly, whilst returning from the City to his home near Slough, on April 5th, 1983, at the age of 60.
He was the son of the late Mr. Henry Enfield Taylor, M. Inst. C.E., of Chester, and in 1891 he served a course as pupil in general civil engineering under his father, and passed through the workshops and drawing office of the Sandycroft Engineering Works at Chester and worked at the New Minera lead mine at Wrexham. In 1898, he was transferred to the London office of John Taylor & Sons, and went through all the departments of the firm’s extensive business.
He visited the Kolar Gold Field, Mysore State, to study the practical working of the mines and plant. In 1896 he was appointed assistant to the firm in the technical direction of the various mines under its management, and visited the Pestarena United Gold Mines, in Italy, the Kolar Gold Field, and the plumbago mines of Travancore, South India. He was admitted to partnership in John Taylor & Sons in 1899, and from that date assisted in the active control of the firm’s interests in mines in Great Britain, India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States of America, Italy, Spain, Egypt and the Sudan, Brazil, the West Indies, and elsewhere.
Mr. Henry Claude Taylor was elected a Member of the Institution in 1909.
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