William Dewar died in London on May 29th, 1930, at the age of 58.
He was a student at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, and in August, 1891, was appointed senior assistant in the Metallurgical Department, under Professor A.H. Sexton. On the completion of the session, he was appointed chief chemist and assayer in to the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd., and subsequently became experimental metallurgist to the same company.
In 1897 he went to South America as metallurgist to the Lucid and Cristo gold mines in the Republic of Colombia, and remained there until 1900, when he became general manager of the British Sulphides Smelting Co., Ltd. During the latter part of his life he was in private practice as a metallurgist, in Finsbury Square.
Mr. Dewar was admitted to Studentship of the Institution In 1892, and was transferred to Membership in 1902.
Vol. 40, Trans IMM 1930-31, pp.449-50
