Hubert Cartwright died on July 21st, 1946.

He received his professional training at the Royal School of Mines from 1890 to 1894, and obtained an Associateship in Metallurgy.

He first went to Southern Rhodesia, where he remained for the whole of his professional career, in 1895 as assistant mining engineer to Goldfields of Matabeleland, Ltd. From 1903 to 1904 he was mine manager of Eldorado mine in Lomagundi, and a year later became mine manager of Mandora mine and subsequently of Simoona mine, Mazoe District. For three years from 1906 Mr. Cartwright worked for British United Great Bear and Dalny mines in the Hartley District, and in 1909 and 1910 was prospecting in the Shamva District. He then was engaged for two years as a mining contractor before taking up the position in 1913 of shift boss at the Owl mine. He served as a gunner in the H.A.C. from 1917 to 1918, but resumed his career in 1919 as mining engineer and manager of Lomah (Rhodesia) Mining Co., Ltd., which position he held for eight years. In 1927 he was appointed chrome contractor to the Rhodesia Vanadium Co., Ltd., and from 1929 managed Mapeke Asbestos Mines, Ltd. In recent years he worked mines on his own account.

Mr. Cartwright was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1906.

Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, p. 612

 

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