EDGAR PHILIP RATHBONE(755)
- Birth: 03 Sep 1856, Liverpool, Lancashire (Ratbone Register). This date is also
listed in the IGI, based on a member submission without information as to source, and by
Foster (1890). There is a GRO births index entry for the Dec quarter of 1856 (W. Derby, 8b, 268).
- Christening:not known.
- Death: 14 Jun 1924, "Whitecross", Wallingford, Berks. (Ratbone Register). The
date listed in the IGI is 13 Jun 1924, based on a member submission with no details as to source.
There is a GRO deaths index entry for the Jun quarter of 1924 (Wallingford, 2c, 337), giving
his age as 67.
- Burial: not known
- Occupation: Mining Engineer.
- Father:Philip Henry RATHBONE(752)
(1828-1895).
- Mother: Jane Stringer STEWARD(189)
(1833-1905).
Census data
- 1861 Wales Census: Aged 4, a scholar, staying at Ordoria(?) House, Llandudno,
with her parents: Philip (37) & Jane (29) and siblings: Alice (6), Harold (2), Oswald (1)
and Gerrard (6 mo.), together with four servants.
- 1871 England Census: aged 14 and a pupil at Oakley House Gentleman's School,
Reading (St Giles) with his brothers Harold S. (12) and Oswald H. (11).
- 1881 England Census: Aged 26, married, staying at 27 Falmouth(?) Square, Liverpool,
with her husband Will. F. Moore (30), a general merchant born at Frittenden, Kent, and with
two servants.
- 1891 England Census: Aged 36, staying at Fulwood(?) Park, Toxteth Park, Liverpool,
with her husband William Moore (40), five of her eventual six children Evelyn (9), Gwendoline (8),
William (6), Elinore (3), and Kathleen (2), together with five servants.
- 1901 England census: Boarding at 145 Goldsmith Terrace, Hampstead, London,
a mining engineer aged 43, with his wife Annie B. (33), born in Cape Colony, and his three
children Philip (8), Beatrice (7) both born in the Transvaal, and John (3), born in Norwood,
Surrey.
According to information on the Rathbone Register, Edgar studied at the Royal School of Mines
in London and at Freiberg and possibly elsewhere. He was pupil of Emerson BAINBRIDGE. After
working as a mining engineer in Central America, he reached Witwaterstrand, South Africa in 1889
(gold was found in the Transvaal in 1885). In 1890 he founded the Witwaterstrand Mining and
Metallurgical Review which lasted two years (Vol. 1, no.1 (Jan. 1890) - v.2, no.21 (Sep. 1891) are
held at the library of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers in Newcastle.)
Convinced of the value of deep levels, he wrote extensively on the subject and, as Inspector of
Mines for the Transvaal in 1893, he drafted the mining Regulations. He was the manager of the
Salisbury Goldmine. Wikipedia, in its article about Basil Rathbone says the family fled to England
when Basil was three (so in about 1895?) after Edgar was accused by the Boers of being a British
spy near the start of the 2nd Boer War (which actually started in 1899). The timing might have
had more to do with the Jameson raid of 1895.
Marriage
- Marriage: 16 Jun 1891, Johannesburg, St Mary the Less (Rathbone Register, IGI).
- Spouse: Anne Barbara GEORGE(764).
- Birth: 9 April 1866, Grahamstown, Kaapkolonie (S. Africa) (Rathbone Register).
- Christening: 1 May 1866, St Bartholomew, Grahamstown (S. Africa). (Rathbone Register).
- Death: 4 July 1917, 24 Hardwick Avenue, Wandsworth, London. The GRO deaths index has
an entry for the Sep quarter of 1917 (Wandsworth, 1d, 439). She was 81.
- Occupation: Violinist.
- Burial: unknown.
- Father: John William GEORGE of Grahamstown, S. Africa. (Rathbone Register).
- Mother: Ann QUINN - a niece of Sir Robert GEORGE. (Rathbone Register).
Children
- Philip St.John Basil RATHBONE (1892-1967).
- Beatrice George Woodham RATHBONE (1893-) - unmarried. (Rathbone Register)
- John Ernest Vivian RATHBONE (1897-1918) - unmarried. (Rathbone Register)
Of these three children, only Basil together his children and grand-children are
listed at the back of Robinson (1992), without any dates.
© John Stowell 2006 Last updated on 21 Sep 2006.
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