Charles Thomas Cogle died suddenly at Rawtenstall, Lancashire, on 25th June, 1951, at the age of 66.
After taking a course in civil and mechanical engineering at the Merchant Venturers’ Technical College, Bristol University, from 1901 to 1904, Mr. Cogle received his mining training at the School of Metalliferous Mining (Cornwall) obtaining the Diploma of the School in 1906. He went immediately to South Africa and worked on various mines, becoming assistant surveyor to Van Ryn Estate Gold Mining Co. in 1909, and surveyor in charge of the Eastern Section, New Kleinfontein Gold Mining Co., Ltd., from 1909 to 1912. During this period he obtained the First Class Mine Manager’s Certificate (Transvaal).
For reasons of health Mr. Cogle left the Rand for Kenya in 1912, spending the next nineteen years in the Colonial Civil Service, where he was engaged principally on land and mine surveys, including reporting in German East Africa during and just after the 1914-1918 war. He reported to the Kenya Government on new discoveries of gold at Kakamega in 1931-32, and in March, 1932, was appointed lnspector of Mines in full charge of the Kakamega goldfield. In January, 1933, he was promoted Chief Inspector of Mines for Kenya Colony.
Mr. Cogle retired in 1935, but since 1938 had been engaged in civil engineering work in Great Britain. In 1946 he was agent for opencast coal workings for Messrs. Edmund Nuttall Sons & Co., Ltd., and later that year was responsible for the main triangulation of the Loch Sloy hydro-electric scheme. He was engaged on a contract at Haweswater at the time of his death.
Mr. Cogle was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1906, and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1923.
Vol. 61, Trans I.M.M. 1951-52, pp. 307-8
