Henry Stuart Weigall died at Sydney, N.S.W., on 18th July, 1951, at the age of 70.
Born in Australia, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and obtained his professional training in the Mining School of the University of Sydney, from which he graduated Bachelor of Engineering in 1903. After obtaining underground experience at New Hillgrove Proprietary Mines, Ltd., N.S.W., he worked at the Hillgrove Cyanide Works until 1905, and then spent a year at the Baker’s Creek gold mine, N.S.W.
In February, 1906, he left Australia for Korea, as assistant to the chief engineer of the Manchu Syndicate, Ltd., and in 1907 transferred to a similar position with the Collbran-Bostwick Development Co. of Hartford, Conn., U.S.A., and Seoul, Korea, to which his brother, the late A.R. Weigall, M.I.M.M., was chief engineer. For the next eight years Mr. Weigall worked on the various mines and prospects owned by his company in Korea, and for the last two years was manager of the Kok Kang Kol gold mine.
In December, 1915, he resigned his position and came to England, where he joined the Army in February, 1916. From March, 1916, until February, 1920, he served with the Army in France, being demoblized with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
In July, 1920, he was appointed general manager of the Taio Gold Mining Co., Japan, a post which he held until 1926, when the property was sold to the Kuhara Mining Co. He then managed the tin mines of the Mitate Syndicate (of which he was a member), the mines being taken over in 1927 by a Japanese operating company, under Toyo Mines, Ltd. Mr. Weigall then went to the Tokyo office as adviser to the company and engaged in other ventures until 1930, when he took over the position of general manager of Toyo Mines, Ltd. In 1940 he returned to England to place his services at the disposal of the Government, and was appointed an engineer at the Royal Ordnance Factory at Chorley, Lancs., where he remained until the end of the war. In 1947 he took up residence in Paris, where he practised as a consultant. He was on a visit to Australia at the time of his death.
Mr. Weigall, who held the Chinese Order of Wen-Hu, was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1909, and was transferred to Membership in 1924. He was also a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
Vol. 61, Trans IMM 1951-52, p.528
[Brother of A.R. Weigall]
