Alexander Holmes Hartley, an assayer, was the son of William Hartley and his wife Margaret Blake. He became a member of the Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa (Johannesburg) in 1896. In May 1899 he read a short paper, "Notes on precipitation of gold from cyanide solutions", at one of its meetings. He was still a member of the renamed Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa in 1905 and at that time was employed as an assayer at the Burham Gold Mining Company, Johannesburg. By 1906 he had become a life member of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science. In May 1905 he married Susan Margaret Gertrude Otto in Pietermaritzburg.

List of sources:
Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa. Proceedings, 1894-1899, Vol. 1-2.

Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa. Journal, 1904/5, Vol. 5, Members.

FamilySearch: Alexander Holmes Hartley. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-Q9NW-J?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6G-VNT8&action=view&cc=2721608 AND https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQH-L99P-R?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHX-VP2N&action=view&cc=2520237 AND https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCG-GD3

South African Association for the Advancement of Science. Report, 1905/6, 1910: Lists of members.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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