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Somerset, Henry St. John (1875 - 1952)FAIMM |
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| Metallurgist | |
| Born: 28 February 1875 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died: 30 September 1952 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | |
| Henry St. John Somerset was General Manager of Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australia Ltd. from 1926 to 1945, then Managing Director from 1945 until his retirement in 1947. He was also a Foundation Director of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd., Burnie, Tasmania. |
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One of Henry St. John Somerset’s first jobs was working as an Assistant Assayer at Mount Morgan Gold Mining Co. in 1893. By 1896 he had been appointed Chief Assayer, then Works Chemist (1900), Assistant Metallurgist (1905), and Chief Metallurgist (1906 -1911). For the next two years Somerset worked as a consultant in Sydney and in 1914 joined Great Cobar Copper Mining Co. as their Chief Metallurgist. In 1916 he moved to Broken Hill Associated Smelters Pty. Ltd. at Port Pirie, firstly as Plant Superintendent and was promoted to General Superintendent in 1919. In 1926 he joined the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australia Ltd. as General Manager, and was made Managing Director in 1945. He retired from this position in 1947, but continued to work as a consultant for the company. As a consultant, Henry St. John Somerset was associated with the development of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. in Burnie, Tasmania and many other related companies. Somerset was heavily involved in the industry as a whole and held many positions of note: He was Councilor of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy from 1926 to 1947, then Vice-President, President and elected a Fellow of the Institute in 1938; Member of the Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria from 1934; Member of the Board of Australian Mines and Metal Association from 1937 and Board President from 1944 to 1950. Chronology
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