Arthur Dickinson died suddenly, from heart failure, on June 30th, 1934, at the age of 65.
He entered the Royal School of Mines in 1889 and graduated with the Associateship in 1893. On completion of his course he spent some months in Cornwall, and in October, 1894, went to Western Australia as joint manager of the Thorniley Exploration Co., Ltd., in the Coolgardie district. Early in 1895, he left for Tasmania on behalf of the same company, and shortly afterwards took the management of the Sunbeam and Twilight Gold Mines, Ltd. From the middle of 1895 to February, 1898, he was on the advisory committee of management for that company and two others.
Coming back to England he was in October, 1898, appointed assistant engineer to the Metallurgische Gesellschaft of Frankfurt a /M., but had to give up in the following year for reasons of health.
In May, 1899, he accepted the management of an emerald mine belonging to the Norwegian Exploration Co., Ltd., at Minne, Norway. In 1904, he entered into partnership with the late Mr. A.G. Charleton, as consulting engineers for groups of mining companies and in general practice, an association which, continued for upwards of twenty years until Mr. Charleton retired from active work.
During the War Mr. Dickinson did useful service at the Ministry of Pensions, Officers’ Branch, and in 1920 resumed his professional activities.
He was in Southern Rhodesia for a number of years and from time to time made other trips abroad. He contributed one paper to the Transactions of the Institution, ‘Assaying of Arsenic Ores’ (Vol. ii, 1893-4), and occasionally took part in the discussions at meetings.
Mr. Dickinson was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1892, and was transferred to Associateship in 1897 and to Membership in 1901. He was a Member of Council for three separate periods, 1909-1920, 1921-1924, and again in 1984, and he actually attended the first meeting of the new Council on the afternoon of the day before his decease.
Vol. 62, Trans IMM 1952-53, p.79
