George Thomas Holloway
George Thomas Holloway (1863-1917)
1917 Obituary [1]
GEORGE THOMAS HOLLOWAY, Assoc.R.C.S., who died on October 24, 1917, was an original member of the Institute of Metals, and was from the first convinced of its usefulness, and sanguine as to its future.
Born at Battersea on October 19, 1863, he was educated privately, entered the Royal School of Mines in 1881, and specialized in chemistry.
From 1884-86 he was Assistant Demonstrator to the Royal College of Science ; originally under Sir E. Frankland, and later under Sir E. Thorpe.
Professional work then took him to Newfoundland ; and on his return in 1888 he commenced practice as a consulting metallurgist and assayer in Chancery Lane.
In the following year he opened testing works at Limehouse for the examination of ores and the testing of processes on a commercial scale.
In 1910 he removed his office and laboratories to Emmett Street, Limehouse ; and later his business was conducted as a limited company, under his personal supervision. He had a varied practice, but was specially interested in tin ores and the rarer metals associated therewith.
In 1915 he was appointed Chairman of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, and to this work he devoted the last two years of his life. He visited Canada twice ; and was also in Norway and in other countries interested in nickel. The Report, which was issued shortly before Mr. Holloway's death, extends to over 800 pages, and is generally acknowledged to be the most complete and trustworthy book which has been issued on the subject.
The throat trouble, to which he succumbed, developed while he was in Canada in 1916. He served on the Councils of the Institute of Chemistry, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, the Society of Public Analysts, and the Chemical, Metallurgical, and Mining Society of South Africa. He also served on the Publication Committee of the Society of Chemical Industry, and was Chairman of the London section from 1912 to 1913. As an examiner he had wide experience, being Assistant Examiner to the Board of Education, Examiner to the Institute of Chemistry, and to the University of Birmingham in turn. He also acted in a similar capacity for other public bodies. He made numerous contributions to technical literature relative to chemistry and metallurgy. With a frail constitution, and suffering from permanent lameness, he yet travelled widely, and accomplished more than many who were physically fit ; while his bright and clear intellect, and his kindly, hopeful character, endeared him to a wide circle of metallurgists and chemists.