Edward Seaborn Marks died at Haywards Heath, Sussex; on 26th December, 1950, at the age of 75.
He received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines, London, obtaining the A.R.S.M. in metallurgy in 1896. The following years he spent in Australia, actively engaged in mining principally on his own account and in association with his brother. The brothers owned and operated two gold dredges at Kiandra, New South Wales, and had other interests in alluvial deposits in that State and in lode mining in New South Wales and Queensland.
In 1905 Mr. Marks relinquished all his work in Australia, and returned to London to set up in practice as a consulting engineer. Until 1908 he was a member of the firm of Abrahams, Heneage and Marks, but in that year he started to practise on his own account. Up to 1914 he visited many countries, including Russia, Siberia, Burma and the Western States of the U.S.A., and for a time acted as general manager of Sungei Besi mines in the Federated Malay States.
In the 1914-1918 war Mr. Marks served in the Army and was mentioned in despatches, retiring with the rank of major. He then resumed his consulting work, and became managing director of several mining companies, in later years becoming particularly associated with the Finsbury Pavement House group of companies. At the time of his death he was Chairman of Atta Gold Co. (1928), Ltd., and Gold Coast Main Reef, Ltd., and deputy chairman of Selukwe Gold Mining and Finance Co. Ltd.
Major Marks was elected a Student of the Institution in 1895 and was transferred to Associateship in 1901 and to Membership in 1910. He was joint author with his brother, Mr. Gerald N. Marks, of a paper on ‘The bucket dredging industry’ published in the Transaction: of the Institution (vol. 15), for which the authors received ‘The Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, Limited, Premium’ for 1906.
Vol. 60, Trans IMM 1950-51, p.256
