Herbert Edward Bradshaw died in a nursing home near Earl’s Court, London, on May 1st, 1982, after a tedious illness, at the age of 58.
He received his technical training at the Royal School of Mines from 1899 until 1902, when he was awarded the Associateship, but he returned to South Kensington in 1905 to take a course in advanced geology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
On leaving the R.S.M., he went to Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa as surveyor to the Rhodesian Exploration Co., Ltd., and thence to the Transvaal as surveyor and assayer to the New Rietfontein Estate G.M. Co., Ltd.
In 1906 he went to South-west Persia as assistant manager, afterwards manager, of the Concessions Syndicate, Ltd., one of the branches of the Anglo-Persian Oilfields, Ltd. Henceforward, his activities were confined to oil, and from 1909 to 1914 he was manager of the Central Rumanian Oilfields, Ltd., the Maikop Midland Oilfields, Ltd., in the Caucasus, and the Newfoundland Oilfields, Ltd.
From 1914 to 1919 he served in H.M. Forces in the signalling section of the Royal Artillery. From 1919 to 1928 he was engaged in reporting on properties in Trinidad and Venezuela for the Trinidad Central Oilfields, Ltd., and in 1928 he was appointed resident geologist of the British Union Oil Co., Ltd., Barbados, British West Indies.
In 1924 he returned home, and established himself as a consulting oil geologist and engineer in London.
Mr. Bradshaw was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1901, and was transferred to Associateship in 1909 and to Membership in 1921.
Vol. 42, Trans I.M.M. 1932-3, p. 609
