Stephen Conrad Clavell Bate
Stephen Conrad Clavell Bate (c1886-1928)
1928 Obituary [1]
STEPHEN CONRAD CLAVELL BATE was trained in a civil engineer's office and subsequently entered the service of the Sybu Syndicate and the Dua (Nigeria) Tin Fields, for whom he designed and erected tin-dressing plants.
In 1916 he became construction and maintenance engineer at H.M. Factory, Langwith, and supervised the erection of plant for the manufacture of ammonium perchlorate.
In 1919 he was placed in charge of that factory and successfully accomplished the breaking down of a large quantity of the surplus British poison gas ammunition.
After a visit of four months' duration to Canada to report on deposits of asbestos, magnesite, and feldspar, he became chemical engineer to Messrs. F. N. Pickett et Fils and was in charge of the breaking down of ammunition stocks in France and Belgium and the recovery of clean metal and chemical residuals.
In 1923 he again visited Canada, and after a period of two years on consulting work in Brazil he became manager of The Tin Fields of Northern Nigeria, and at the time of his death in Nigeria on 14th April 1928, had increased the firm's output of tin from between 2 and 3 tons per month to 12 tons per month.
Mr. Bate, who was in his forty-second year, became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1920.