Robert Montgomery Nevile died at Sutton, Surrey, on March 14th, 1917, aged 39 years.
He studied chemistry and assaying at York, and afterwards at King‘s College, London. In 1897 he went to Western Australia, and for a year acted as assayer to the Water Trust Crushing and Mining Co., at Northam.
After six months spent in studying mining and gold extraction methods on some of the principal goldfields of Western Australia, Mr. Nevile went eastward to Victoria, and from 1899 to 1903 was working at the Homeward Bound Mine, Beechworth, for the first year as assistant manager and for the remaining three years as manager. He acted as consulting engineer to the company for a further two years, during which period he was also manager of the Victoria Standard Mines, Ltd. He then returned to the managership of the Homeward Bound Mine, and continued to act in that capacity until 1909, when business engagements took him to England for several months. During the latter part of his life he was engaged in reporting work in various parts of Australia.
Mr. Nevile was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1897 and was transferred to Associateship in 1903.
Vol. 26, Trans IMM 1916-17, pp.272-3
