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THE death of SIR LINDSAY WOOD, BT., on September 22, at eighty-six years of age, is announced in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. Sir Lindsay was born in 1834, and educated at the Royal Kepier Grammar School, Houghton-le-Spring, and King's College, London. He served as a mining engineer apprentice at Hetton Collieries, of which in 1866 he became managing director. He was also on the boards of several other coal companies and allied undertakings. From 1875–78 he was president of the Northern Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and in 1879 he served on the Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines. His chief work was a series of elaborate and exhaustive experiments on the pressure of gas in coal. Sir Lindsay was created a baronet in 1897, and served as Deputy-Lieutenant and High Sheriff of the County of Durham.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 187 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106187b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106187b0