THOMAS WILLIAM LMBLETON. 
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The year 1844 saw a transference of the Society's Museum from 
Wakefield, where the cost of its separate maintenance had been 
found too onerous for the finances, to the custody of the Leeds 
Philosophical and Literary Society, in whose Museum the specimens 
were deposited. By the arrangement mutually concluded between 
the two Societies, the joint curatorship was vested in Mr. J. G. 
Marshall and Mr. Embleton. 
At the meeting held in March, 1865, Mr. Embleton introduced 
the new hydraulic coal-cutting machine, invented by Messrs. Carrett, 
Marshall & Co., of Leeds, which had given some encouraging results 
in trials made at Kippax Collieries. In 1866, the Annual Meeting 
was held at Wakefield, under the chairmanship of Mr. Embleton, 
who delivered an address on " The History of Ancient Coal Mining," 
which will be found printed in the Proceedings. 
In 1869, Mr. Embleton was elected President of the Midland 
Institute of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers, an office which 
he filled on three occasions. In 1891, he was called to the post of 
President of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers. When 
the Coal Mines Regulation Act of 1872 was passed, Mr. Embleton 
was appointed one of the three Examiners for the Yorkshire and 
Lincolnshire Mining District, and he continued most assiduously to 
perform the duties of this important office. 
After entering upon his seventy-first year, Mr. Embleton was 
initiated a Freemason, and passed through many degrees of the craft, 
He was a munificent donor to the Masonic charities. 
Mr. Embleton died at his residence, The Cedars, Methley, near 
Leeds, on November 8th, 1893, aged 84 years. Thus passed from 
our midst a familiar and venerable figure, endowed with a vigorous 
intellect and will, and the repository of large stores of ripe professional 
experience. He was such a link between the past and present as we 
seldom meet with, for he had been engaged on practical improvements 
in locomotive engines at the date of the opening of the Liverpool 
and Manchester Railway. As regards loyalty to the Yorkshire 
Geological and Polytechnic Society, Thomas William Embleton was 
as constant in his support when answering the summons to its 
Council Meetings in 1893, as when, in 1837, he moved the resolution 
which resulted in its foundation. R. Reynolds. 
