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Walter Douglas Harverson OBE ARSM MIMM (1903 – 1992) was Commissioner of Mines and Geology in Kenya from 1949 to 1958〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Mining Magazine )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenya Gazette )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Colonial Geology and Mineral Resources )〕 and Commissioner of Mines in Tanganyika between 1958 and 1962.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tanganyika Directory )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Consulting Engineers Who's who and Year Book )〕 ==Life== Walter Douglas Harverson was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1903 and educated at Wellington College in New Zealand, Bedford Modern School in England and at the Royal School of Mines in London, England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An encyclopaedia of New Zealand )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Colonial Office List )〕 In 1934, Harverson was engaged as a geologist in Kenya where he made safaris through the South Kitui District and made notes on the rocks forming the road east of the road at Mutomo and on the marble at Kanziku.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Geology of the South Kitui area )〕〔http://library.wur.nl/isric/fulltext/isricu_i736_001.pdf〕 He served in World War II between 1939 and 1943 in the East African Engineers when he left as Major.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bulletin )〕 After World War II Harverson returned to Kenya where, as Assistant Commissioner of Mines, he doubted the ability to exploit limestone deposits at Keben, South of Lessos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Report )〕 He became Commissioner of Mines and Geology for Kenya from 1949 until 1958〔〔〔 when he was appointed Commissioner of Mines in Tanganyika, a position he held until 1962.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=TANZANIA (TANGANYIKA AND ZANZIBAR, UNITED REPUBLIC OF) )〕 He was later appointed mining legislation adviser in Liberia in 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mining Journal )〕 Harverson was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1958.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kenya Gazette )〕 He died in 1992.〔http://www.ancestry.co.uk〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. D. Harverson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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