Edmund Lionel Gay-Roberts died at Johannesburg on April 30th, 1945, at the age of 63.
After graduating at Oxford in 1904 with the M.A. degree with first class honours in chemistry and mineralogy, he entered the Royal School of Mines gaining the A.R.S.M. in mining in 1907. In September of that year he took a position with the Cie Miniere de Guinée, and two years later was appointed mining engineer to the Société des Mines de la Haute Guinée, subsequently, until his return to Europe in January, 1911, holding the position of acting manager of the Société.
In April 1911 he assisted in the work of reporting on properties in Swaziland for African Tin, Ltd., and later became assistant manager of the properties of Alluvial Tin Fields of Africa, Ltd., at Kuils River, Cape Province. In 1914 Mr. Gay-Roberts joined the staff of New Modderfontein Gold Mining Co., Ltd., as assistant surveyor and shift boss, and in 1917 was appointed mine captain at Government Gold Mining Areas, Ltd., Brakpan, where he remained for eight years. At the beginning of 1926 he took up the position of manager to Potgietersrust Platinums, Ltd., and from 1930 until 1936 held other appointments in the Transvaal.
In 1936 he joined the staff of Bushtick Mines (1934), Ltd., Southern Rhodesia, of which he became manager, a position which he held until 1944. During this period he contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Institution entitled ‘Mining practice at the Bushtick mine, Southern Rhodesia’ (vol. 50). In 1944 he joined Associated African Mines, Ltd., consulting engineers to the Bushtick Mines.
Mr. Gay-Roberts was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1908, and was transferred to Associateship in 1912 and to Membership in 1928.
Vol. 55, Trans IMM 1945-46, pp.567-68
[Father of E.A.C. Gay Roberts?]
