Wayverne Walter Brooke-Howard was killed in a car accident near Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia, on 10th August, 1947, at the age of 49.
He was educated at Gill College, Cape Province, from 1910 to 1919, and for eighteen months of that period served as a cadet in the R.A.F. in Egypt. He took the first-year mining course at Witwatersrand University in 1921-22 and was engaged for a few months on exploration and prospecting in the Lufira River basin, Katanga, Belgian Congo, before entering the employment of Union Miniére du Haut Katanga in January, 1923, first as sampler and surveyor and then as operator of a copper leaching plant at Panda.
He left the Belgian Congo in October, 1923, to take up the appointment of sampler and surveyor at the Nkana mine of Bwana M’kubwa Copper Mining Co., Ltd., Northern Rhodesia, and from April, 1925, to May, 1925, held the position of engineer in charge of the prospecting work in Uganda of Tanganyika. Concessions, Ltd. He subsequently joined the staff of Tanganyika. Goldfields, Ltd., for two years and then was employed as underground agent at the Mysore mine, Kolar Gold Field, in 1931. Early in the following year he became mines manager for three years in New Caledonia for La Soeiété Tieboghi, and returned in September, 1935, to Tangunyilm us mine superintendent and acting manager of the Geita Gold Mining Co., Ltd. From there he went to the Gold Coast on his appointment as mine superintendent of the Tokosea mine of Kwahu Mining Co. (1925), Ltd., and on the suspension of operations in July, 1937, did reporting work until January, 1938, on tungsten properties in Burma for the Anglo-French Finance Corporation.
Mr. Brooke-Howard entered the service of St. Swithin’s Ores & Metals, Ltd., as mine manager of the Tshontanda tungsten mines, Southern Rhodesia, and transferred July, 1939, to the managership of the Selukwe mines of Rhodesia Chrome Mines, Ltd. He held this position at the time of his death.
Mr. Brooke-Howard wrote a paper entitled ‘Chrome concentrator at Selukwe’ which appears in the Transactions of the Institution (vol. 52, 1942-43).
He was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1924 and transferred Associateship in 1932.
Vol. 57, Trans I.M.M. 1947-48, pp. 469-70
