Dudley Hewitt Thacker died suddenly at King’s College Hospital on 16th September, 1947, at the age of 62.
He received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines from 1903 to 1906, obtaining the A.R.S.M. in mining, and was then awarded an I.M.M. post-graduate scholarship for a one-year course at Simmer & Jack Proprietary mines, Transvaal. From December, 1907, to June, 1909, he was employed by Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, Ltd., as assistant surveyor all the Simmer & Jack Proprietary mines, and for a few months subsequently as surveyor and sampler to the East Rand Extension Gold Mining Co. in September, 1909, he was appointed surveyor to Robinson Randfontein Gold Mining Co., and from November, 1910, to March, 1912, held the position of assistant manager to Sections 4 and 5 of Randfontein Central Gold Mining Co., Southern Division. He then became manager to the Northern Division and, in 1917, general manager.
Mr. Thacker left Randfontein Central in 1918 to take up the appointment of manager of New States Areas Gold Mining Co., Ltd. He subsequently retired, and had for some years resided at Totland Bay in the Isle of Wight.
Mr. Thacker was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1905, and was transferred to Associateship in 1910 and to Membership in 1915.
Vol. 57, Trans IMM 1947-48, pp.478-8
