Edward Otto Forster Brown
Edward Otto Forster Brown (1881-1941)
1941 Obituary [1]
EDWARD OTT0 FORSTER BROWN was born at Cardiff on the 26th November, 1881, and died at Fountain House, Park Lane, London, on the 22nd May, 1941.
He was educated at Aysgarth School and Winchester, and pursued his Engineering studies at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
He received his training in mining science in South Wales, Northumberland, Scotland, and Germany, and in 1905 passed first in the examination for the First Class Colliery Manager’s certificate.
He then spent 2 years in America, Africa, and the Far East, investigating mining conditions, and later acted as resident consulting engineer for seven colliery companies in northern Mexico for 2 years.
In 1912 he commenced to practise in London as a consulting mining engineer, and was directly associated in an administrative or advisory capacity with the development of coalfields in Kent, South Wales, the Midlands and Durham, and also with the iron ore reserves of Prance and North Africa, whilst he prepared numerous reports on coalfields in many other parts of the world.
He gave evidence before the Sankey Coal Commission in 1919 and the Samuel Commission in 1926, and also acted as a Special Referee for the Court of Appeal.
In 1921 he was sent by the League of Nations to Upper Silesia. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Safety in Mines, and of the Board of the Geological Survey of Great Britain....[more]