The Hatch and Associates firm in Canada was originally formed in 1955 as
W.S. Atkins. A Gerry Hatch joined the firm in 1958 and in 1962 the firm was
renamed as Hatch and Associates.
I am not confident that there is a link between Frederick Hatch as described
and the well know consulting firm. Does anybody have information to the
contrary ?
Thanks
Roy Wares
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Roy Wares, P. Eng. FEC
Vancouver, BC
604.261.5633
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Subject: Mining Club Minute Book
Of any interest???
Mining Club Minute Book
As its last treasurer, I have a Minute Book, containing the original
handwritten minutes of the earliest meetings of committees of the Mining
Club, which was based at 3, London Wall from June 1911 until the end of
1992. The Minute Book covers the meetings of the General Committee held
from the first, on 5th May 1910 in Salisbury House, until the book (all 270
foolscap pages of it) was full, the last meeting recorded in it being dated
20th March 1916.
Sadly, I do not think any history of The Mining Club was ever written. As
its last Honorary Treasurer and also at that time editor of the monthly
Mining Magazine, I tried to get people to send me notes which could have
been used for an article, but there were few contributions. After the Club
closed, the residual funds of £32,000 were donated to the Institution of
Mining and Metallurgy (IMM) to be used to fund an annual travel scholarship
for young persons in the industry. This still exists, and since the mergers
of various institutions, The Mining Club Award is now administered by the
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoMMM) headquartered at 1,
Carlton House Terrace.
In the Mining Magazine's editorial of January 1993 I wrote about the Club,
as follows:
"The Mining Club was established in London in May 1910 as a meeting place
for those engaged in the industry. In those days over 500 mining companies
had offices in the City of London, as did many consulting engineers of
considerable international standing.
The links between the new Club and the IMM were strong. The Club's initial
committee included two past presidents of the IMM, Walter McDermott and
Arthur C. Claudet; the IMM president of that year, Edgar Taylor; and the
president-elect, H.L. Sulman. The Club's secretary was also the secretary
of the IMM, while another member of the committee was ex-IMM council member
T.A. Rickard, the first editor of Mining Magazine. Amongst the 74 original
members of the Club was Herbert Clark Hoover (translator into English, with
his wife Lou Henry Hoover, of Agricola's De Re Metallica and later President
of the U.S.A.), who at that time had a consulting mining engineering
practice based in London. Whereas the IMM was established to provide a
professional body for those in the minerals industry, the Club was an
informal gathering-place. After electing the initial membership, the first
item of business recorded in the Club's Minute Book is that 'The question of
providing cigars, playing cards, etc, was left to the House Committee'.
The last paragraph of the Minutes recorded in the book, in March 1916,
strikes a rather poignant note, bearing in mind what the tunnellers were
doing in France:
"The secretary read a letter received from Mr T Bruce Marriott, who asked to
be allowed the loan of the specimen of the Korean miners' candle holder,
presented to the Club by Mr A.G. Drucker, which he desired as an
illustration for a lecture about to be delivered to a class of Royal
Engineers. The request was at once granted and the secretary was authorised
to send the trophy to Mr Bruce Marriott in accordance with the terms of his
letter."
The original meeting of the General Committee was attended by Sidney H.
Farrar, President, in the Chair; Walter McDermott, Vice-President; H. L.
Sulman; Arthur C. Claudet; George J. Holloway; Cyril E. Parsons; V. Herbert
Smith; T. A. Rickard; E.O. Bannister; O.J. Reinhart; Bertram Blount; A.J
Simon; and C. McDermid, Honorary Secretary. Apologies for absence were
noted from Edgar Taylor; R.E Commans; and George Safford.
The following new members were duly elected (their names listed in two
parallel columns, in apparently random order, as follows:
D'Arcy Weatherbe George Walter Leach
John Collett Moulden Percy John Ogle
James Andrerson Gilmour John N. Broomhead
Harold Jeans O. Newhouse
William Alfred Barron Julius Lezynsky
Charles W. Grimwade William Hope Henderson
George O'Hanlon E.L.C. Bishop
James Knight H.C. Hoover
J. Percy Ashmore W. A. Humfrey
Robert Alexander Alston E. E. L. Dixon
Lawrence Stevens Burt O. J. Jones
Arthur Robert Clements P. Litherland Teed
H. J. Graves A. W. J. Bleeck
Percy Everley Jones A. N. Campbell
H. J. Keen George Haworth
Thomas G. Davey A. C. Schonburg
Lester P. Sidney F. E. Birkinshaw
Donald A. Campbell F. F. Skurray
Matthew Tauylor Brown A. Otter
H. J. Payne A. H. Rider
James Jack H. Vincent Wallace
Frederick H. Wintle E. Willey
William A. Heywood Frank H. Probert
Donald F. Campbell R. Donaldson
L. H. Beckwith J. H. Jackson
R. D. Connell R. E. Carr
Henry Maurice Ray J. P. Pittar
W. Maitland Edwards J. W. Dagnall
J. V. Elsden E. Studt Franz
Through the book there are, of course, many more lists of those who were
accepted as members (happily, most later lists are in alphabetical order of
surname!). The above notes list part of the contents of pages 1 and 2.
Later in the book two names have caught my eye. One of those is Alfred
Chester Beatty, elected on 27th June 1911, who played a major role in the
development of the Northern Rhodesian Copper Belt. The other is Frederick
H. Hatch, who was elected on 10th July 1911 - would he be the one who went
on to set up a consulting firm of that name in Canada?
Tony Brewis
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