William John Wellington died rather suddenly of haemorrhage of the stomach at Falmouth on December 9th, 1930, at the age of 51.
From 1903 to 1912 he was employed on various mines in the United States, in the Butte region of Montana, and in the latter year returned to Cornwall where he was successively mill manager of the Geevor and the Mulberry tin mines. In 1914 he went to Burma as mill manager of the Mawchi tin and wolfram mines, but came to England in 1917 to join H.M. Forces as a mechanic in the Royal Air Force. In 1919 he went to India as mill manager at Rakha, one of the Cape Copper Co.’s properties, and thence to the United States where he was for upwards of two years engaged on experimental work in flotation at the Miami Copper Co.’s plant in Arizona.
In 1925 he went to France to take up the appointment of mill manager at the Mines de Villemagne and three years later was employed in Norway by the Dunderland Iron Ore Co., Ltd. In June, 1930, he went to Spain to the Rio Tinto mines, but his health failed and he was invalided home in August of that year.
Mr. Wellington was elected an Associate of the Institution in I923.
Vol. 41, Trans IMM 1931-32, p.663
