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achievements in a long distinguished career in the Geological Survey andespecially of his work in the realm of economic geology.

The fruits of his official work, published in maps, memoirs, annualreports of the Geological Survey and in the Regional Guide on NorthernEngland, continued to appear after his retirement from the GeologicalSurvey, in 1949, while he was a consulting geologist with Messrs. CraeliusCo. Ltd. Stanfords Geological Atlas of Great Britain appeared under hisauthorship in 1965. Practically all his other contributions were publishedin the PROCEEDINGS of the Geologists' Association.

Tommy, as he was affectionately known to his friends, had a warm per­sonality. He was always kind, considerate, cheerful and willing to help,but remained a blunt Lancastrian. With his phrase 'the labourer is worthyof his hire, laddie', he spanned the transition from the gentleman to theplayer in the Geological Survey. His early upbringing taught him the valueof money and in the course of his official duties he never forgot that thetax-payer provided the 'brass'. From his own pocket he was extraordinarilygenerous. Tommy's birthday was the 25th December but he was alwaysready to have a birthday on any other day if his colleagues had no otherexcuse for celebration. He loved a 'get together' and last attended theGeologists' Annual Dinner shortly after his 81st birthday.

He is survived by his wife who gave him the utmost devoted and practicalsupport in his field days and on the happy occasions when he was SantaClaus at many a children's party.

S. B.

ERNEST SHEPPARD PINFOLD, M.A., F.G.S., F.INST.PIIT., F.N.I., died at Heysham,Lancashire, on 5 December 1969, just one day short of his eighty-firstbirthday. He was a Bradford (Yorkshire) man and was educated atBradford Grammar School and Cambridge University, where he obtaineda Double First in 1910 and was awarded the Harkness Scholarship inGeology.

In the same year he joined Steel Brothers & Co. Ltd. as a geologist andwent to Burma at the end of that year. He served continuously, principallywith the Indo-Burma Petroleum Co. Ltd. and later with the Attock OilCo. Ltd. but also with several other associated companies of Steel Brothers.His work lay in Burma and India until 1942 when Burma was overrun bythe Japanese. Thereafter he worked mainly in north-west India (laterPakistan) until he returned from overseas in 1946. He did not retire, how­ever, but continued as an active consulting geologist to the Steel Brothersgroup of Companies until his death.

He was a first-class field geologist and it was mainly through him that theLanywa oilfield in Burma and the Khaur, Dhulian and Balkassar oilfieldsin the Punjab were discovered. He made valuable contributions to the

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classification of the Eocene of the Punjab and published several papers,mostly in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, though naturallymost of his work was not for publication.

He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1911. In 1920 hewas awarded the Moiety of the Lyell Fund, and in 1941 the Lyell Medalwhen the late Professor W. G. Fearnsides was President. He was awardedthe King's Jubilee Medal in 1935.

He was a Fellow of the National Institute of Sciences of India (F.NJ.);a late Vice-President of the Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Instituteoflndia; and a Fellow of the Institute of Petroleum. He was also a memberof the Geologists' Association and the Yorkshire Geological Society. Hejoined the Association in 1923and was a life member. After his return tothe United Kingdom he became an active member of the LiverpoolGeological Society and was a late Vice-President.

Ernest Pinfold was an extremely pleasant colleague to work with, helpfulto the younger members of the staff and in his writings made most generousacknowledgments of their work. He had a very keen brain, and took alively interest in many subjects. Amongst other activities he was a veryable field botanist. His favourite pastimes were stamp-collecting and chess.

In 1916he married Jessie Jowett, also of Bradford. She predeceased him,for she died on 13 November 1965. He leaves a son and a daughter.

A. E. D. and G. c.

ERNEST RONALD RAWORTH, M.I .C.E., A.R.I.C.S., died in Birmingham verysuddenly on 23 April 1970.

He was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, on IS February 1905, and waseducated at Christ's Hospital. He joined the staff of Somerset CountyCouncil in 1922 and served his articles under A. Douglas Barron inMinehead. In 1925 he transferred to the County Borough of Southportwhere he worked under A. E. Jackson on a number of highway and otherprojects. He then served on the staff of the County Borough of Birkenheadas a Senior Engineering Assistant until he joined the Ministry of Transportin 1935. He started in the London Division of the Ministry where he wasresponsible for the Ministry aspect of highway engineering matters inMiddlesex, and when war broke out became involved in agency serviceworks for the Ministry of War Transport. He became a member of theAssociation in 1936.

In 1945 Mr. Raworth transferred to the Headquarters of the Ministryon promotion and became responsible to the Chief Engineer for overallengineering control of road improvements in England and Wales, until hetransferred on further promotion to West Midland Division of theMinistry in Birmingham in 1955,where he served as Senior Engineer under