Hugh Ostle Crighton died on February 15th, 1946, at Kampala European Hospital, Uganda, at the age of 67.
He was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1899 he took up employment as assistant to the general manager of Burrakur Coal Co., Ltd., at their Gourangdi colliery, Bengal and three years later being appointed assistant in charge of their Jamgram colliery.
In 1904 he returned to England and took a course in Mining at the Camborne School of Mines, obtaining a first class Diploma in 1906 He went to Perak, F.M.S., in August of that year where he held the positions of assistant manager, and subsequently manager, of the Pusing Lama tin mines, leaving in 1909 to become general manager in Nigeria for the Nigerian Tin Corporation, Ltd.
In 1915 he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers and served with a Field Company in Mesopotamia; he was appointed acting adjutant, R.E., 17th Indian Division, and, in 1918, adjutant, R.E., in Persia. He returned to civilian life in 1919, joining the Niger Co., Ltd, as assistant engineer in the mining department, where he remained for two years, and in 1927 and 1928 was engineer in charge of operations in Uganda for Ankole Tinfields, Ltd.
Mr. Crighton went to Ecuador in 1928 in the position of chief assistant, Santiago Properties, Ltd., and from 1932 to 1933 was assayer and prospector at Taquah and Abosso Gold Mines, Ltd., West Africa. Since 1933 he had been operating his own tin mine at Kikagati, Uganda.
Mr. Crighton was elected a Student of the Institution in 1905 and was transferred to Associateship in 1907.
Vol. 56, Trans I.M.M. 1946-7, p. 614
