F. Danvers Power

Frederick Danvers Power (1861–1955) was an Australian academic, a lecturer in geology and metallurgy.

History Power was born in England, a son of Samuel Browning Power (1824–1892), a shipowner of London, and his wife Rebecca Danvers (1835–1902).

He was educated at Malvern College, the Royal School of Mines, London, and the Mining Academy, Clausthal, Germany.

In 1884 he migrated to Australia, settling in Melbourne. He worked in an assay laboratory in Bethanga until 1887,

While an assayer for the Union Bank, he was in 1890 a key witness in the trial of Robert J. W. Pound, accused of the theft of some £5,000 worth of platinum from the Otway Ranges Company.

He was appointed consulting engineer to tho Overflow Company in 1897.

In 1902 he was appointed lecturer in mining at Sydney University, which he held until 1935.

Power acted as manager of the Great Cobar mine in 1913 during the four months Bellinger was away on leave.

Memberships He was a longtime member of Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, and president 1897, 1904. Fellow of the Geological Society Member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers Member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in London