John Alexander Philip Gibb died in Toronto, Ont., Canada, on March 16th, 1926, after it short illness.
He received his technical education at the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, in 1896, followed six years later by at course of assaying in the laboratories of the late Mr. G.T. Holloway. lntermediately, he worked in two collieries in Scotland and served a four years’ apprenticeship with Messrs. John & G.H. Geddes, mining engineers, of Edinburgh.
After various minor appointments, he went to South Africa in 1907 as surveyor to the Kleinfontein group of mines, and in the following year he was appointed chief assistant to the consulting engineer of the Anglo-French Exploration Co., Ltd., Johannesburg. In 1924 he went to Camulu as representative of the same company in the Dominion. He contributed a paper to the Transactions on ‘Usefull Alignment Charts’ which appeared in Vol. xxx (1920-21).
Mr. Gibb was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1903, and was transferred to Associateship in 1907, and to Membership in 1914.
Vol. 36, Trans IMM 1926-27, p.531
