MR. LESLIE URQUHART
(Received March 15, 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. Obituary.—Mr. John Leslie TJrquhart, the mining engineer, who came prominently before the public some •years ago in connection -with mining concessions in Russia and Siberia, which tho Soyiet declined to allow to be worked.
-The late Mr. J. L. Urquhart, -who was a mining engineer, was chairman of the Russo-Asiatie Consolidated Mining Trust and a director of New Guinea Goiafields. He was bovn in 1874, and studied mining engineering at the Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities. Ho was employed on. the Baku oilfields, Caucasus, from 1896 to 1906, and later owned and operated mining enterprises in Siberia and Russia until the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. As a mine owner he was engaged in development work in France, Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere. He was awarded the Albert gold medal (first class) by King Edward in 1906, and the silver medal of tho Royal Society of Arts in 1916.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 9
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