Background
Monypenny, Philip Henry was born on March 1, 1916 in Sheffield, England. Son of John Henry Gill and Florence Anne (Shepard) Monypenny.
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Philip Henry Monypenny
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Bachelor of Engineering, Sheffield University, 1938.
Career
Assistant to Her Majesty Morgans, consultant, Zonguldak, Turkey, 1937—1939. With Overman Nunnery Colliery, Sheffield, 1946. Manager Monk Bretton Colliery, Barnsley, Yorks., England, 1946—1951.
Chief mining engineer Schwager Colliery, Coronel, Chile, 1951—1962. Mine superintendent Minas El Algarrobo, Vallenar, Chile, 1962—1963, operations superintendent, 1963—1965. General manager Ensign Bickford Company y Cia.
Ltd., Antofagasta, 1965—1974. Managing director Detonantes Nacionales S.A., Santiago, Chile, 1975—1981, consultant mining engineer Chile, 1981—1984. Honorary British vice consultant, Antofagasta, 1974—1978.
Served with Royal Engineers British Army, 1939-1946.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow: British Institution Mining Engineers. Member: Instituto Ingenieros de Minas (lay reader), American Institute Mining Engineers, Association Mining Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
Connections
Married Bettina Nancy Davies Monypenny, March 26, 1940 (deceased). Children: John Richard, Jillian Gay, William Hugh, Robert George, Frances Claire, Philip Charles. Married Elizabeth Bruce Little Monypenny, June 5, 1957.
- Father:
- John Henry Gill Monypenny
- Mother:
- Florence Anne (Shepard) Monypenny
- Spouse:
- Bettina Nancy Davies Monypenny
- Spouse:
- Elizabeth Bruce Little Monypenny
- child:
- Jillian Gay Monypenny
- child:
- Philip Charles Monypenny
- child:
- Robert George Monypenny
- child:
- John Richard Monypenny
- child:
- William Hugh Monypenny
- child:
- Frances Claire Monypenny
