Sydney F. Goddard died at Ruthin; North Wales, after a very short illness, on May 30th, 1942, at the age of 70.
He received his early technical training at Nottingham University College, followed by a. year spent in France as assayer and assistant manager at lead and silver mines. He then went to the United States, where, after a season engaged with a field party of the American Ethnographic Survey working among the Navaho Indians, he was employed for nearly four years as assayer, millman and mine superintendent of various mines in the Prescott district of Arizona.
In 1895 he went to Western Australia as manager of two developing mines in Kalgoorlie, and three and a half years later was appointed general manager of the Bibiani Gold Mines in West-Africa. In 1900 he made a trip to Southern Siberia to inspect a group of copper prospects and his later mining activities also comprised the management of diamond mines in South Africa and a visit to Peru. His last professional engagement was as manager of two gold mining concessions in Northern Italy.
On his marriage, which took place in 1911, he retired from the mining profession and joined a firm of stockbrokers in the City of London. During the war, 1914-1918, he served in the, Royal Marine Engineers.
Mr. Goddard was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1900 and he was also a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Vol. 52 Trans IMM 1942-43, pp.395-6
