William John Barnett died on November 8th, 1945, at the age of 77.
He was a student at the Camborne School of Mines for four years, where he won the Medal of the Mining Association of Cornwall and Devon, and then worked for four years in Cornish mines.
He took up the appointment of assistant general manager to La Joya copper mines, Huelva, Spain, in 1892, and a year later joined the Spos Bonn. Gold Mining Co. in the position of assistant manager and assayer, leaving after eight months to become head assayer to the Paarl Central Gold Mining and Exploration Co., Ltd., Johannesburg, ‘where he also did private reporting.
From 1896 to 1900 he was employed as mining engineer to Consolidated Mines Selection Co., Ltd., and then spent some months examining mines in New Caledonia and Australia.
For many years he was in practice as a consulting engineer, with headquarters in London, but retired from active work after the 1914-18 war. He was a director of the Poderosa Mining Co., Ltd., and of other concerns at the time of his death.
He was elected to Studentship of the Institution in 1893, and was transferred to Associateship in 1896 and to Membership in 1902.
Vol. 55, Trans I.M.M. 1945-46, pp. 560-1
