Francis Thomas Ware died at Corbridge-on-Tyne on April 30th, 1923, at the age of 59.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Hexham, and the College of Physical Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and received his technical training at Henderson’s Mining School, Truro, with subsequent practical experience under his father at the Stonecroft and Greyside mines, Northumberland. In 1883 he went to Asia Minor as assistant manager of the Souback and Catw Alan mining company, where he remained for a year. At the conclusion of this engagement he returned to the Stonecroft and Greyside mines, where for 5 years he acted as engineer and for another 5 years as general manager.
His next appointment was in Peru as general manager to La Soledad gold mines, but eighteen months later he accepted the position as general manager of the Herrerias copper mine, in Spain, a post that he held for upwards of five years. In 1903 he went to New Zealand as general manager of the Mount Aurum Gold Mining Co. Five years later he returned to Spain to assume the general managership of the Escalera mining company at Marmelejo, for a period of 2 years. In 1912 he entered on a series of private mining enterprises occupying something over 2 years, and then went to Sweden as general manager and engineer of the Stora Strand Mine, Aktiebologet Lake Copper, where he was engaged for 5 years. In 1920, he returned to England suffering in health, and engaged henceforth only in private practice.
Mr. Ware was elected a Member of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 33, Trans IMM 1923-24, pp.541-2
