Henry Moore Annesley Cooke died in October, 1937, at the age of 62.
He was educated at Blundell’s School and King’s College, London, where he studied in the engineering department and did special assaying work. On leaving the College he had some surveying experience in Devon and Cornwall and visited various mines in England and Wales.
In 1897 he obtained an appointment in Italy with John Taylor & Sons, and two years later joined the staff of the Ooregum mine in Mysore. In 1902 he became assistant superintendent at Ooregum and in 1905 he was appointed to a similar position at the Champion Reef mine. He was for a time with the Balaghat Gold Mining Co., but he returned later to Ooregum, and in 1931 he left India on his return to England.
Mr. Cooke was a Member of the Institution of Mining Engineers and of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: he became a Student of the Institution in 1895 and was transferred to Associateship in 1904 and to Membership in 1909.
Vol. 48, Trans I.M.M. 1938-39, pp. 828-9
