Eu Siang Hye, better known as Siang Hye Eu, died in Penang, Straits Settlements, on July 20th, 1928, at the age of 42.
Eastern by birth, he came to England in 1906 for a three years’ course of instruction at the Redruth School of Mines, where he acquitted himself with great credit. On completion of his course in Cornwall, he went to the Federated Malay States to study the methods of mining there practised, and in the following year he was appointed professor of mining to the Imperial Polytechnic College, Nanking, China.
In 1912, he returned to the Straits Settlements, where he was engaged on various mining enterprises until his death.
Mr. Eu was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1906, and was transferred to Associateship in 1912.
Vol. 24, Trans IMM 1929-30, pp.693-4
