Hallett Winmill died in South Devon on December 11th, 1938, at the age of 71.
From 1884 to 1888 he served an apprenticeship on the North London Railway, followed by a year occupied in mechanical engineering at Millwall Docks. In 1889 he went to South Africa and for three years was engineer and battery manager at the Pigg’s Peak gold mine in Swaziland, and engaged on general mining and hydraulic sluicing in the same district.
In 1893 he went to the Rand and worked under Farrar Brothers on various mines until 1896, when he went to Western Australia for Messrs. P.J. Ogle & Co., to open an office and report on mines in the Commonwealth. From 1905 to 1920 he was occupied in examining, prospecting and reporting in the Sudan, Liberia, West Africa, Trinidad and Siam for various firms, followed by three years employed in superintending the erection of an oil-refinery plant near Abadan for the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.
In 1924 and 1925 he was managing tin-tailings works in Cornwall and tin mines in Nigeria, and in 1926 he was in charge of a prospecting company in Burma. From 1930 to 1934 he was manager of a road-stone quarry in Somerset, and in 1935 he went again to West Africa as manager of the Nigerian Gold Mines, Ltd.
Mr. Winmill was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1892 and was transferred to Membership in 1904.
Vol. 50, Trans IMM 1940-41, pp.554-5
