Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge died at his London residence, 47, Upper Grosvenor Street, W., on May 12th, 1911, at the age of 65.
He was educated privately, and studied mathematics and mining engineering at the University of Durham while serving an apprenticeship in Lord Londonderry’s collieries.
In 1867 he was selected to report to the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers on coal haulage, for which he received the award of a valuable premium, and two years later a paper he wrote on the probability of working coal at a depth of 4000 ft. was awarded the Manby Premium of the Institution of Civil Engineers, this being shortly followed by a Herman prize for a paper on the prevention of colliery explosions.
In 1870 Mr. Bainbridge undertook the supervision of the Sheffield and Tinsley Collieries, and later the management of the Duke of Norfolk’s collieries, afterwards becoming managing director of the Nunnery Colliery Co. He assisted in opening up a number of new coalfields in the midland district, and his connection with the industry was enlarged by his inclusion on the directorate of such enterprises as the Blackwell, Bolsover, Griff, Hatfield Main, New Hucknall, Newbiggin, Nunnery and Wharncliffe Silkstone colliery companies, the Mansfield and Sheffield District railway companies, and the Yorkshire Engine Co.
Mr. Bainbridge was one of the jurors at the Inventions Exhibition in 1884, and the Brussels Exhibition of 1897, and a member of the Royal Commission on Coal Dust in Mines in 1891. He was one of the original partners in the firm of Bainbridge, Seymour & Co., mining engineers.
He was elected a Member of the Institution in 1902.
[Born – 5 December 1845]
Vol. 21, Trans I.M.M. 1911-12, pp. 719-20
