Francis William Evelyn Markham died in Cornwall on June 4th, 1924, from an attack of pneumonia, aged 41 years.
In 1901 he entered Liverpool University to study engineering, and on completion of one year’s course he went to Truro School of Mines for about 2½ years. In the summer of 1904 he proceeded to Australia where he worked on the Lake View, Great Fingall, and Great Boulder mines in W.A. Returning to England in 1906, after a visit to Spain in the following year, he went on a prospecting trip to Peru. In 1909 he returned to England and engaged in mining on his own account in Cornwall.
In 1915 he joined the Royal Fusiliers, and subsequently transferred to the Tunnelling Companies (R.E.), and in 1919 resumed his work, the mines in which he was interested having been carried on in the interval. For the last few years preceding his death he was working the Magdalen mine, Ponsanooth.
Mr. Markham was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1906, and was transferred to Associateship in 1921.
Vol. 34, Trans IMM 1924-25, p.571
