Background
Rickard, Thomas Arthur was born on August 29, 1864 in Pertusola, Italy. Son of Thomas and Octavia Rachel (Forbes) R. (both English).
Rickard, Thomas Arthur was born on August 29, 1864 in Pertusola, Italy. Son of Thomas and Octavia Rachel (Forbes) R. (both English).
Early education in Russia and at Queen's College, Taunton, England. University of London, 1881. Associate, Royal School of Mines, London, 1885.
Doctor of Science, Colorado School Mines, 1927.
Came to the United States, 1885.
Assayer and surveyor, Colorado, 1885-1887. Mine manager, California, 1887-1889. Travel and examination of mines in Australia and New Zealand, 1889-1891.
Mine manager, France, 1891-1891.
State geologist of Colorado, 1895-1901. Examining mines in Canada and West. Australia, 1896-1898.
Consulting mining engineer at Denver, during intervals. Editor Engineering and Mining Journal, 1903-1905.
Editor Mining and Scientific Press.
San Francisco, 1906-1909, The Mining Magazine, London, 1909-1915, Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco, 1915-1922. Contributing editor Engineering and Mining Journal-Press, 1922-1929. Lecturer, mining geology, Harvard, 1912-1915.
Fellow Royal Anthropological Institute. Member American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (honorary), Institution Mining and Metallurgy, London (gold medalist 1932). President California branch English-Speaking Union, 1926-1932.
Club: Union (Victoria, British Columbia).
Married Marguerite Lydia Rickard, December 20, 1898.