Clarence Vivian Paull died on 17th November, 1949, at the age of 51.
He entered the School of Metalliferous Mining (Cornwall) in 1919, and on obtaining his Diploma in 1922 he accepted employment in South Africa at Van Ryn Deep, Ltd. There he worked for 2½ years as assistant sampler, then on machine developing and stoping and, finally, for fifteen months as shift boss. He returned home to take up, in January, 1925, the position of assistant manager of South Crofty mine, Carn Brea, Cornwall, of which his father was general manager. He succeeded his father, the late Captain Josiah Paull, J.P., M.I.M.M., in 1930, and became a director of South Crofty in 1945.
Mr Paull who was a member of the Board of Governors of the Camborne School of Mines, was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1934 and was transferred to Membership in 1947.
Vol. 59, Trans I.M.M., 1949-50, p.?
Buckley, J.A. (1997) A history of South Crofty Mine (Truro: Dyllsnsow Truran), p.154 & p.175.
