Jeffrey Glencairn Cunningham died in Burma on October 22nd, 1928, from heart failure, at the age of 55.
For upwards of ten years, between 1889 and 1900, he was engaged in practical mining on antimony, mispickel, copper and sulphur mines in Corsica and Sicily, and in 1900 he returned to England to take the course at the Royal School of Mines, where he received his Associateship in 1903. On completion of the course, he obtained an appointment as manager of the Coruña Copper Co., Santiago, Spain, and in the following year he went to Greece in a similar capacity, and twelve months later in Corsica, where he remained until 1909. In that year he went to Brazil as mine manager and subsequently as general manager of the Brazilian Goldfields, Ltd. In 1913 he became manager of the Zapucay gold mines, in Uruguay, and also reported on properties in Brazil.
From 1915 to 1917 he was engaged in work at the War Office, and from 1917 was attached to the Department of Mineral Resources, Ministry of Munitions.
Mr. Cunningham was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1902 and was transferred to Membership in 1913.
Vol. 39, Trans I.M.M. 1929-30, p. 693
