Clarence John Inder died at Leeds on December 9th, 1942, at the age of 68.
He was born in New Zealand and received his technical education at Otago University. From 1894 to 1899 he was employed by the New Zealand Engineering and Electrical Co. at Dunedin, where his experience was mostly in connexion with gold dredgers, and in 1899 he came to South Wales where he was assistant manager at Messrs. George Green’s mining and engineering works, Aberystwyth. For a year subsequently he was assistant to Mr. F.J. Warden Stevens, consulting engineer, and in 1901 he was appointed consulting engineer to the Duff Syndicate, Ltd., of London.
In 1904 he joined the late D.D. Henderson as consulting engineers, and the firm was in 1916 joined by Mr. James T. Dixon, with the style of Inder, Henderson & Dixon, with offices in London Wall Buildings, E.C.2. The firm acted as consulting engineers for a large number of dredging and mining companies, and Mr. Inder in the course of his career visited many countries, including Malaya, Serbia, Russia, French West Africa, British Guiana, the Republic of Columbia, Burma, and British West Africa.
He was an Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. For some time before his death he was engaged in work of national importance at Stockton-on-Tees.
Mr. Inder was elected an Associate of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in 1904 and was transferred to Membership in 1919.
Vol. 53, Trans IMM 1943-44, pp.432-3
