Walter Leggo White died in South Africa on August 6th, 1939, at the age of 65.
He was educated at London University where he graduated in 1896 with the degree of B.A. He then went to Camborne School of Mines, and in 1898 had a post-graduate course in engineering and geology at Mason College, Birmingham. On the conclusion of that course in 1899 he went to British Columbia as assistant manager of the Velvet Mine, Rossland, and then returned to work in mines in Cornwall.
In 1902 he left England for South Africa where he spent the rest of his working life in various capacities, including those of sampler and assistant surveyor on the Ferreira. Mine, surveyor and underground manager on the Witwatersrand Gold Mine, section manager on the Angels Mine of the East Rand Proprietary, and consulting engineer to the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company.
Mr. White was elected a Member of the Institution in 1919.
Vol. 49, Trans IMM 1939-40, p.741
