Cecil William Chater died in Burma on March 20th, 1937, at the age of 61.
From 1897 to 1899 he was a pupil in the engineering works of Messrs. Brooke & Co., Lowestoft, and in the latter year entered the Camborne School of Mines, obtaining his diploma in 1901.
On leaving Camborne he went to the Gold Coast for Akoko Gold Mines, and in 1902 joined the staff of the Globe and Phoenix mines in Southern Rhodesia. In 1903 he went to South Africa, where he remained for five years, being employed at the mines of Messrs. Barnato Bros., and at Village Deep. From 1908 onwards his work was mostly in Burma. He was general manager of the Mount Pima Mining Co. from 1908 to 1909, and during the following year reported on concessions in that country. In 1910 he became superintending engineer of Tavoy Concessions, Ltd., and the Hermyingyi Mining Co., Ltd., and in 1911 he reported on the Bawnin copper mines in the Southern Shan States. At the end of that year he returned to England, but early in 1914 he was again in Burma as joint manager of the Tavoy and Tenasserim concessions and of the Hermyingyi mine, which became during the Great War the largest producer of Wolfram concentrate in the Empire, if not in the world.
After the War Mr. Chater was in practice in London as a consulting engineer, with headquarters at 68, Victoria Street, S.W., but he ceased to practise his profession several years before his death.
He was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1908.
Vol. 47, Trans I.M.M. 1937-8, pp. 539-40
