Leonard Harvey died from acute blood-poisoning at Kitere, Kenya, Colony, on May 12th, 1935, at the age of 49.
In 1903 he entered the Penzance Mining School, and underwent a practical training course at the Levant mines, afterwards for some months being assistant instructor in surveying at the School. From
1906 to 1912 he was engaged on various Cornish mines, Hexworthy, Golden Dagger and Wheal Hampton, and in 1912 he went to Portugal to join the stuff of the Mina de S. Domingos at Mertola, and was employed in various capacities for about ten years. In 1922, he received an appointment with the Namaqua Copper Co., Ltd., Concordia, Namaqualand, and a few months before his death, after an interval during which he was in England, he was appointed general manager of the Kenya Consolidated Goldfields, Ltd.
Mr. Harvey was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1920.
Vol. 45, Trans IMM 1935-36, p.513
