14 Facts About Richard Redmayne

Richard Redmayne was elected a student member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers on 13 December 1884 and obtained a First Class Certificate of Competency as a Manager of Mines on 28 October 1887.

Richard Redmayne became an under-manager at Hetton before transferring to South Africa in 1891, where he became the manager of Walmsley Collieries near Newcastle, Colony of Natal.

In 1902 Richard Redmayne was given the chair in mining engineering at the newly founded University of Birmingham.

From 1908 to 1913 Richard Redmayne was appointed a commissioner to inquire into mine disasters at the Hamstead, Maypole, South Moor, Whitehaven, Little Hulton, Cadeby and Senghenydd.

In recognition of his work improving mine safety Richard Redmayne was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1914 Birthday Honours.

Richard Redmayne resigned from the university in 1908 to take up a job at the Home Office as the first Chief Inspector of Mines.

Richard Redmayne chaired the bureau's examination and entry board from 1912 until 1950.

Richard Redmayne continued to sit on government committees well into his old age and was the independent chairman of the National Conciliation Board on Road Motor Haulage from 1934 until 1938 and as chairman of the Road Haulage Wages Board from 1938 until 1941.

Richard Redmayne was an active member of many institutions throughout his life, starting with his election as a student member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in 1884.

Richard Redmayne became a member of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers in 1889 and would be elected an honorary member in 1909.

Richard Redmayne was elected to the presidency of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in 1916, the first of several such offices.

Richard Redmayne's five volume Modern Practice in Mining is a comprehensive account of the coal mining industry of his time and was written from 1908 to 1932.

In 1898, Redmayne married Edith Rose Richards, with whom he would father one son, John, and two daughters.

Richard Redmayne died, aged ninety, at his home in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire on 27 December 1955.