Clement Le Neve Foster
Clement Le Neve Foster (c1841-1904)
Obituary 1904[1]
"...formerly H.M. Chief Inspector of Mines under the Metalliferous Mines Act, and Professor of Mining in the Royal School of Mines, who died at his residence at Coleherne Court, South Kensington, on April 19th, at the age of sixty-three. Sir Clement was the second son of the late Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, who was for many years the secretary of the Society of Arts, and after passing through the College Communal, of Boulogne-sur-Mer, where be graduated as a Bachelor in Science of the University of France, entered the Royal School of Mines, receiving the Duke of Cornwall's scholarship - then the highest honour of the school in 1858, and subsequently studied some time at the Royal Saxon Mining Academy of Freiberg. Upon his return to England, he joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1860, and was for..."More.
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- ↑ The Engineer 1904/04/22, p419.