Harold George Cayley Robinson died in the hospital at Jos on April 15th, 1914, at the age of 33.
From 1899 to 1905 he served his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer with the Southend Engineering Co. and Messrs. A. and T. Burt in New Zealand, and for the next two years he was assistant engineer to the Lone Star Gold Dredging and Hydraulic Sluicing Co. at Cardrona, N.Z. In 1907 he was engaged as assistant to the manager of the Surinam Gold Concessions, Ltd., Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, and in 1909 he became manager of the Brahmini Gold Dredging Syndicate and of the Nederlandish Surenamish Goud Maaty, in the same colony.
From 1911 he was engaged in Calabar, Southern Nigeria, by the Nigeria Proprietary Co., and while, in that employment he came to London on leave in the early part of 1913, returning to the Company in May of the same year.
In 1914 he joined the staff of the Northern Nigeria (Bauchi) Tin Mines, Ltd., at Naraguta. Whilst fulfilling that engagement he was taken ill with dysentery, and, complications setting in, an operation was rendered necessary, from which he did not recover.
Mr. Robinson was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1912.
Vol. 23, Trans I.M.M., 1913-14, p.528
