Donald Rennie Pengilly died at Jos, Northern Nigeria, on July 26th, 1945, at the age of 41.
He was educated at Taunton School from 1913 to 1921, and, after a short period of practical mining experience in Portugal, took a three-year mining course at the University of Birmingham. In July, 1925, he accepted a post with the Anglo-Peninsula Mining and Chemical Company, Ltd., as junior assistant engineer at their arsenic mine in Portugal, and in July, 1926, was appointed surveyor and assayer to Ervedosa Tin Mines, Ltd., in Northern Portugal. A year later he joined the staff of Naraguta Tin Mines, Ltd., Nigeria, as assistant engineer, where he remained until 1931.
He returned to Nigeria in 1934 on his appointment by Messrs. Rumbold & Co. to the position of acting manager in charge of tin and columbite mining for Minerals Research Syndicate, Ltd., later being designated area manager, in which position he was still serving at the time of his death.
He was elected a Student of the Institution in 1926 and was transferred to Associateship in 1935.
Vol. 39, Trans I.M.M., 1929-30, pp.699-700
