Sidney Charles Dyer died in Johannesburg on December 28th, 1941, at the age of 65.
He was born at Dutoitspan, Kimberley, and was the youngest son of the late Dr. J.E. Dyer, who practised for many years in Pretoria and Dutoitspan. He received his early education at the South African College, Cape Town, and then came to England, when he entered the Royal School of Mines in 1895, and obtained the A.R.S.M. in 1899.
On leaving the School he spent about a year in gaining coal-mining experience with Messrs. J. & P. Higson of Manchester and in 1901 went to Western Australia to join the staff of Bewick, Moreing and Co. at the Hannan’s Brownhill, Bellevue and Golden Age Mines. In 1904 he was appointed manager of the Edendale Lead Mining Co., in the Transvaal, and subsequently from 1904 to 1908 was engaged in reporting on gold, tin, copper and diamonds in Swaziland, Zululand, the Transvaal and Rhodesia. In the last named year he became assistant to the resident engineer of the British South Africa Co. in Bulawayo and later engaged in private practice as a consulting engineer in the same locality, specially in connexion with the Rhodesian Consolidated and South African Copper Trust, Ltd., and Transvaal and Rhodesia Estates, Ltd. In 1920 he retired from his profession to live on his farm in the Germiston district of the Transvaal and extended his interests in various forms of sport.
Mr. Dyer was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1897; he was elected an Associate in 1902 and was transferred to Membership in 1914.
Vol. 52, Trans IMM 1942-43, pp.394-5
