Gerald Frederick Brook Cowper died on October 3rd, 1921, at the age of 39.
He was educated at Leamington College and the Camborne School of Mines, which was followed by three years’ training in engineering at the works of Messrs Holman Bros., and a course of assaying, etc., with the late Mr. G.T. Holloway.
In 1904, he went to South Africa as assistant surveyor and sampler to the Village Main Reef G.M. Co., but in the following year he came home to act as assistant mechanical engineer to the Clitters United mine in Cornwall. After six months’ prospecting in Lower Burma he was, in 1906, placed in charge of a dredging property in the Northern Shan States, returning later to take the position of assayer and surveyor at Clitters. From 1907 to 1909, he was assistant engineer to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concessions, Kweichou, China, but in 1910 he returned to Europe and thence to the date of his death he was engaged on mines in Portugal.
Mr. Cowper was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1904, transferred to Associateship in 1908, and to Membership in 1918.
Vol. 31, Trans I.M.M. 1921-3, p. 576
