Charles Herbert Wilson died suddenly at Birchover, Derbyshire, on November 20th, 1944, at the age of 74.
He was born in Australia of American parents, and commenced his mining career at Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1890 he acted as assistant to the Commissioner of South Australia at the International Exhibition of Mining and Metallurgy in London, and he remained for the following three years studying at the Royal School of Mines. He returned to Broken Hill Proprietary Co., Ltd., in 1893, and in 1895 he was appointed chief assayer to W.A. Goldfields, Ltd., Coolgardie, and two years later took up a post with the Long Reef Gold Mining Co., West Australia. He managed various Australian mines until 1906, and then spent two years in Russia at the Caucasus silver-lead mines.
In 1908 he went to India for the Jubalpur Syndicate and from 1911 to 1914 he was with the Bisichi Tin Co. (Nigeria) Ltd. In 1919 he was appointed manager of the tin mines of the Anglo-Siam Corporation, Ltd., and remained in Siam until 1924, for the last two years as general manager of the Siam Coal Mine Co. Mr. Wilson spent the following four years in practice as a consultant in Singapore. He returned to Nigeria in 1928 as general manager to Bisichi Tin Co. (Nigeria) Ltd., until 1930, and in 1935 was appointed general manager of Central Wassau Gold Mines, Ltd., Gold Coast, leaving in 1938. In 1941 he undertook to act as librarian for the Institution, and he was still serving in that capacity at the time of his death.
Mr. Wilson was elected a Student of the Institution in 1892, the year of its foundation, and was transferred to Associateship in 1901.
Vol. 54, Trans IMM 1944-45, pp.278-9
