Lionel George Frederick Fokes

Lionel George Frederick Fokes (1884 - 11 November 1961).

Born the son of Henry Fokes, a Milliner

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1961 Obituary

'We regret to have to record the death, on November 11, of Mr. Lionel G. Fokes, a former editor of our contemporary The Iron and Coal Trades Review. Mr. Fokes, who was seventy-seven, was trained in electrical engineering, and took a part-time course at Sheffield University while employed in the mains department of the Corporation electricity supply undertaking. He then joined the London Branch of A.E.G. of Berlin, and worked on a section of the electrification of the Metropolitan and District Railways.

Later Mr. Fokes went to South Wales, where he was engaged on the original electrification of collieries owned by the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company. Other electrification work took Mr. Fokes to most of the principal collieries in South Wales, and for a time he was employed by the Ocean Coal Company Ltd., being engaged on the installation of turbo-generating plant, pumps and surface electrification at the Deep Navigation Colliery, Treharris.

Mr. Fokes joined the Iron and Coal Trades Review in 1919, and was appointed editor in 1928. In 1944 he was compelled, owing to a breakdown in health, to relinquish the editorship, but did not sever his connections with the paper, being retained in a part-time consultative capacity.

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