Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, died on 18th February, 1962, at the age of 74.
He was the son of the seventh Viscount, whom he succeeded in 1918. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and served in the 1914-1918 war as captain in the Coldstream Guards and later as honorary captain in the Royal Air Force.
Lord Falmouth was a member of the London County Council from 1925 to 1931 and an alderman from 1932 to 1937. He was a member of the London and Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority from 1927 to 1937 and of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory from 1935 to 1940. He served on the Advisory Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and of the Fuel Research Board from 1936 to 1941. He was appointed chairman of the Government Committee on the Production of Oil from Coal in 1937, and during the second world war was head of the Fire Research Division of the Ministry of Home Security.
Lord Falmouth was appointed to the Governing Body of Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1932 and served as Chairman for fourteen years from 1947. During this long period, which coincided with the great expansion of the College, his responsibilities were exceptionally heavy. In 1944 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Imperial College. He represented the College on the Governing Body of the Camborne School of Metalliferous Mining.
He was a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Companion of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Gas Engineers. He was President of the Conjoint Conference of Public Utility Undertakings, of the Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturers Research Association and of the Gas Research Board. He was Chairman of the Fire Research Board and was a Past-President of the British Electrical Development Association and of the British Electrical Research Association.
Lord Falmouth was elected to Honorary Membership of the Institution in 1957, in recognition of his valuable services to the mineral industry, particularly in the field of education.
Vol. 72, Trans I.M.M. 1962-63, p. 529
