John Jervis Garrard died on July 18th, 1922, at the age of 56.
He was educated at Clifton College and King’s College School, and received his engineering training at King’s College and University College and under Mr. J. Russell, M. Inst. C.E., of Westminster. On the completion of his course, he was engaged for about a year in examining mines in Devon and Cornwall, and was in 1889 appointed engineer and manager of the Algerian Copper Co., Ltd., under Messrs. Bewick, Moreing & Co., consulting engineers. During the period of that engagement he was appointed British Vice-Consul at Bougie.
In 1898 he became engineer and surveyor to the Premier Concessions of Mozambique, and in the following year he was made Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of Mines for Zululand under the Imperial Government, and while holding that office published four annual Blue books on the mining industry. He was also gazetted Justice of the Peace for the Territory of Zululand, and appointed chairman of a commission which was established to revise the mining laws of Natal and Zululand.
In 1898 he became associated with the firm of H. Eckstein & Co., and after several years occupied in inspecting and reporting on mines, and serving through the South African War in the Railway Pioneer Regiment, and a period of seven years engaged in private practice as a consulting mining engineer, he was in 1908 appointed mining engineer on the staff of H. Eckstein & Co., with engineering control of the Transvaal Consolidated Land and Exploration Co., Ltd., in which capacity he had the direction of many tin and gold propositions in various parts of South Africa and the constant examination of new propositions.
For the last year or two preceding his death he was consulting engineer to the Premier Hydraulic Tin Mines, of Nigeria, Ltd. Arising out of his extensive experience in hydraulicing, he contributed two papers to the Institution: ‘Hydraulic Tin Mining in Swaziland’ (Trans., vol. xxvi, 1916-17) and ‘Syphoning Gravel’ (Trans., vol. xxvii, 1917-18), which provoked interesting discussions. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society and an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Mr. Garrard was elected a Member of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 33, Trans IMM 1923-24, pp.532-3
