Stanley Dawson Ware died in London on 14th July, 1954, at the age of 85.
After studying in the engineering department of the Merchant Venturers’ School, Bristol, from 1885 to 1887 Mr. Ware served a three-year apprenticeship in mining engineering at Aberystwyth. During 1890 he was in charge of machinery at a Bristol tannery, and at the end of that year took a post as assistant rock-drill foreman at Dolcoath mine. In 1892 he joined a prospecting and surveying expedition to Darnaraland for the South-West Africa Company, and at the end of 1894 went to India where he Was to remain for some fifteen years. His first position there was with Hyderabad (Deccan) Co.; in 1897 he took up the management of plumbago properties for Messrs. Binny & Co., of Madras, until 1901, and subsequently for South India Export Co. of Madras. In 1905 he was made manager, agent and partner in the Southern India Coal Mining Syndicate, of Madras, and three years later was appointed superintendent and commercial geologist for the Diamond Drilling and Prospecting Syndicate of Calcutta.
Mr. Ware left India in 1910 for the Belgian Congo, where he was employed for five years by the Belgian Government as engineer in charge of prospecting at the Kilo-Moto mines. Thereafter his career was mainly as consultant, and his work took him to Wales, Ireland, Cornwall, Spain and Abyssinia, and later, between 1923 and 1924, to British Guiana and Nigeria, where he was engaged on boring operations for water supply schemes. He was prospecting for tin in Tanganyika in 1928-1930 for Tanganyika Goldfields, Ltd., and from then until his death was actively concerned on investigations of the non-ferrous mineral deposits of Great Britain, principally in Wales, Cornwall and Derbyshire.
Mr. Ware was elected a Student of the Institution in the year of its foundation, 1892, and was transferred to Associate Membership in 1895 and to Membership in 1911. He received the Star of the Congo for his technical investigations in that country.
Vol. 64, Trans IMM 1954-55, p.196
