Lionel William Macer, British surveyor and mining engineer, was
the son of Moses Macer and his wife Susan Pigott, born Day. He came to South Africa in or
before 1910, for in that year he resided in Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumalanga. In 1913 he became
a member of the Geological Society of South Africa. He was associated with the
Transvaal Gold Trust and was a leading member of the Mines and Claimholders
Association of Pilgrim's Rest. Two articles by him were published in the Pilgrims Rest Goldfields, Mines and
Claimholders Quarterly (no dates available): 'Dykes and sills' (Vol. 1, pp.
11-13), and 'The persistence of ore in depth' (Vol.1, pp. 13-16). In 1915 he
applied for a United States patent (which was registered in April 1917) for new
and useful improvements in rail-joints. Later he contributed a 'Note on the
footwall beds of the Far East Rand' to the Journal
of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa (1917/8,
Vol. 18, pp. 70-73).
On 29 January 1910 in Ilford, England, Macer married Ada Elizabeth Franklin, with whom
he had two sons and a daughter. At the time of his death he resided in Histon, near
Cambridge, England.
