Richard Lloyd Wright died in London, on March 3rd, 1925.
He enrolled as a student of the Royal School of Mines in October, 1897, and gained the A.R.S.M. in metallurgy in June, 1900. After an interval of six months during which he was occupied as a research assistant in the laboratory of the late Sir William Roberts-Austin at the Royal Mint, he qualified for the A.R.S.M. in mining in June, 1902. In September of the same year he went to British Columbia to take up an appointment in the assay offices of the Hall Mines Lead-Copper Smelter, at Nelson, but at the end of four months he was appointed surveyor to the Le Roi No.2, Ltd., Rossland, with whom he remained for four years. He then went on a private prospecting trip in Nevada, U.S.A.
In December, 1907, he was engaged as surveyor to the Akrokerri (Ashanti), Gold Mines, Ltd., for a year, after which he was occupied for a similar period in prospecting in the Gold Coast Colony for the Gold Coast Amalgamated, Ltd. He left West Africa in 1909 in consequence of bad health following malaria, and for three years worked as demonstrator in mine surveying at the Camborne School of Mines. In May 1914 he returned to British Columbia to make an extensive survey of coal areas in Crow’s Nest Pass, but on the outbreak of war he returned to England to join H.M. Forces. He received a commission in the Tunnelling Companies, R.E. On leaving the Army, he returned for a year or so to the Le Roi No.2, Ltd., at Rossland, B.C., returning to England in 1922.
Mr. Wright was elected an Associate of the Institution in 1921.
Vol. 35, Trans IMM 1925-26, pp.451-2
