Reginald Warmington Toll died on 18th February, 1962, at the age of 66.
He was educated in Devonport and trained at Devonport Technical School, later studying metal mining while working in Devonshire and Cornwall as assayer and prospector. In 1914 he was engaged as manager of Tavy mines, a tin-arsenic property at Bere Alston, later also taking charge of the Rumleigh arsenic works and reopening the nearby Little Duke mine. He continued in charge of mining and ore-dressing operations in the Tamar valley and managed Tavy Consols mine on his own account from 1921 to 1924, also working until 1930 as assayer, chemist and metallurgist on plant owned by the Duke of Bedford. From 1924 to 1927 Mr. Toll was employed by Messrs. John Taylor and Sons on the reopening of the Crowndale mines, Tavistock, and erected treatment plant and calcining and refining plant for arsenical-copper ore.
From 1930 onwards Mr. Toll was associated with water supply and hydroelectric plant construction, first for Tamar and Plym Fishery Board and from 1932 for West Devon Electric Supply Co., Ltd. In 1948 he was appointed surveyor and engineer to South Western Electricity Board, and later had a consulting practice in Devonshire.
Mr. Toll contributed a number of papers on the West Country to the technical press.
He was elected a Student of the Institution in 1917 and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1921.
Vol. 72, Trans IMM 1962-63, p.532
