Eric Ewart Gladstone Boyd died in Queensland, Australia, on 9th May, 1958, at the age of 64.
An Australian, Mr. Boyd entered the University of Sydney as a mining student in 1912 and spent a year in 1914 gaining underground and surface experience at Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co., Ltd. He enlisted in 1915 for service with the Australian Expeditionary Forces, was Captain in the 2nd Australian Light Horse and lost an arm at Gallipoli.
After the war he resumed his University studies at Sydney, and graduated B.E. in Mining and Metallurgy in 1920. He spent the next year gaining practical experience at Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co., Ltd., in Tasmania as holder of a postgraduate scholarship, at Port Kemball, N.S.W., with Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Co., Ltd., and with the Zinc Corporation, Ltd., whose staff he then joined in 1921 as an experimentalist, later becoming foreman of slimes retreatment plant.
He did research work at North Broken Hill, Ltd., for three months, and in April, 1923, was appointed assistant mill superintendent, Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co., Ltd. Mr. Boyd left Mount Morgan towards the end of 1924 to work on tin dredging in Malaya, on Rawang tin fields, Selangor, for a time, and in 1925 he was appointed general manager of Malim Nawar South, Ltd., Kuala Kampar Tin, Ltd., and Tanjong Tualang Tin, Ltd., companies which were merged to form Kuala Kampar Tin Fields, Ltd. In 1928 he joined Austral Malay Tin, Ltd., as assistant general manager and was made a director of the company and its subsidiaries. He became general manager in 1932 and managing director three years later. He held this position for eleven years until his return to Australia in 1946.
Mr. Boyd then renewed his association with Mount Morgan, Ltd., of which his father had once been general manager. He joined the board of directors and was deputy chairman and managing director at the time of his death.
While in Malaya Mr. Boyd served as a member of Council of the Federated Malay States Chamber of Mines, and was President for the two years 1936 to 1938. Mr. Boyd joined the Institution as a Student in 1919, and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1926 and to Membership in 1939. He was a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and was Chairman of the Sydney Branch of the Institute in 1956.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M. 1949-50, pp. ?
