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Robertson, James Robert Millar (1844 - 1932)

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Mining engineer
Born: 11 February 1844  Renfrew, Scotland.  Died: 11 April 1932  Kirribilli, New South Wales, Australia.
James Robert M. Robertson arrived in Australia in 1880 and spent the next fifty years closely involved in the New South Wales coal industry and as geological consultant to mining operations elsewhere in Australia. He was also President of several royal commissions into accidents, including those at Lithgow, Tighe's Hill and Delta collieries, into the conditions of the Ferndale pit (1886) and into the Bulli colliery explosion (1887). By 1896 he was managing director of the Caledonian Coal Co. and director of the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Co., the North Coast Steam Navigation Co. and other colliery and shipping firms. Prior to arriving in Australia Robertson assisted in the management of his father's collieries and worked briefly as a medical officer to the 1st Battalion, 42nd Infantry Regiment (Black Watch) in India and Burma.

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Chronology
1866Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Glasgow
c. 1870 - c. 1871Engineer at Tharsis Co. (mining engineers) in Spain
1872 - 1880Consultant to British mining companies in Borneo, the Malay States, India and Burma
1880Migrated to Australia (Sydney)
1886President of the Royal Commission into the conditions of the Ferndale pit
1887President of the Royal Commission into the Bulli colliery explosion
c. 1896 - Managing Director of the Caledonian Coal Co.

 

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