Angus Gordon Gow died on 20th August, 1959, at the age of 59.
Mr. Gow was trained at Cardiff University and the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines at Treforest between 1919 and 1923, and gained their joint mining diploma. In 1924 he was awarded a first-class Home Office Certificate in Competency in Coal Mining and the City and Guilds of London Institute Final Certificate in Mine Surveying.
His first engagement was with Powell Duffryn Coal Co., Ltd., and he worked in various South Wales collieries as fireman (examiner) and assistant overman until 1927, when he went to India. He was a colliery manager for six years for Messrs. Macneill and Co., Calcutta, at their Jamuria group, Bengal coalfields.
From 1933 to 1944 Mr. Gow was metal mining in West Africa, as prospector and assistant mining engineer with Gold Coast Selection Trust, Ltd., and Marlu Gold Mining Areas, Ltd., his work being mainly in the field and on shaft sinking.
On his return to the United Kingdom in 1944 he was appointed manager of Great Mountain colliery and two years later took up the post of manager of East Pit, Gwaun-cae-Gurwen, Carmarthenshire. In 1957 he was made a planning engineer, South Western Division, National Coal Board, and in 1959, a few months before his death, he was transferred to Abernant colliery, Carmarthenshire, as manager, during shaft sinking operations.
Mr. Gow was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1939.
Vol. 70 Trans IMM 1960-61, pp.75-76
