Clement Harry Pead died in Bulawayo on January 13th, 1944, at the age of 77.
He received his education at the Bury St. Edmunds Grammar School, and went to South Africa in 1889, where he started his career as an assistant in the assay office of the Jumpers Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Johannesburg, in 1890. In the same year he was appointed chief assayer and held this position until the end of 1895, for the last eighteen months of this period being also cyanide manager.
Early in 1896 he received the appointment of chief metallurgist to the East Rand Proprietary Mines, Ltd., with whom he remained for eleven years, during which the number of stamps under his care grew from 40 to 820. He spent some months in 1907 and 1908 reporting on Rhodesian mines for a private syndicate, and in 1909 he went into partnership with Mr. G.H. Fison as mining engineers, metallurgists and assayers in Bulawayo.
Mr. Pead was elected to Membership of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 54, Trans I.M.M., 1944-45, p.274
