Robert Reginald Thompson died suddenly at Folkestone on January 22nd, 1924, at the age of 39.
He was a student at the Armstrong College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, from 1903 to 1905, and in the following year held the position of mine foreman at the Worvas Down tin mine in Cornwall.
In 1906 he was appointed assistant underground agent to the Mysore Gold Mining Co., Marikuppam, S. India. From 1910 onwards he had appointments in Nigeria, Trinidad, and Persia, and subsequently obtained a Professorship at the Birmingham University, which he had to relinquish owing to ill health.
Professor Thompson was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1910.
Vol. 34 Trans IMM 1924-25, p.574
