Reginald Francis Gordon Bayley died at Tunbridge Wells, on August 16th, 1926, in consequence of injuries received in a motor-cycle accident on the previous day.
He was born in 1880 and in 1897 became a student of the Royal School of Mines obtaining his First Class Associateship in 1900. After acting as demonstrator at the school for about three years under the late Sir William Roberts-Austen, he joined the staff of the Mijnbouw Maatschappij Redjang Lebong, Sumatra, as assayer, and remained in the service of that company until its reconstruction in 1913, at which date he was acting cyanide manager. Early in 1914 he went to the Gold Coast Colony as assistant manager to the Taquah Abosso Consolidated, Ltd., and later became manager of the Taqnah Mine.
On medical advice, as he suffered extremely from malaria, he returned to England in 1921 and retired from professional Work. Apart from his professional qualifications, however, he was a botanist of no mean order, and in recent years spent considerable time on the Continent collecting specimens.
Mr. Bayley was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1902 and was transferred to Associateship in 1907.
Vol. 36, Trans I.M.M. 1926-27, p. 528
