Stephen Llewellyn Terrell died on 22nd December, 1952. He was 67 years of age.
He received his training at Cornwall County Technical Instruction Schools and privately, and had underground mining and ore-dressing experience at Clitters United Mines, Ltd., before joining the British Mining and Metal Co., Ltd., in 1905 as assayer and dresser at their Bedford, Drakewalls and Coombe mines. He was employed as local manager of Wheal Friendship mine from 1907 until it closed down in 1910, when he became assistant manager and assayer to Wheal Jewel Syndicate, Ltd. In 1911 he took a post in Bolivia but returned to England and was tributing in Devon in 1912 before leaving England for Northern Nigeria in September of that year to join Kaduna Syndicate, Ltd. From 1914 to 1919 he held the position of assistant and acting manager to that company.
On leaving Kaduna Mr. Terrell returned to England and practised as a consultant until 1929, when he was appointed assistant general manager of Kagera (Uganda) Tinfields, Ltd., Tanganyika Goldfields, Ltd., Bukoba (Tanganyika) Tinfields, Ltd., and Ankole Tinfields, Ltd. He was appointed general manager of Kagera Mines, Ltd., in 1932.
He returned to England in 1938 and set up a consulting practice in partnership with Messrs. P. Davis and R. W. Toll. At the time of his death he was engaged as a consulting mining engineer on his own account.
Mr. Terrell was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in 1914, and was transferred to Membership in 1933.
Vol. 62, Trans IMM 1952-53, p.528
