alumni James Howard Williams, known as Elephant Bill Percy Sherwell, Transvaal, MCC and South African Cricketer, and captain of the South African Cricket Team Eric Roberts, MI5 agent during WWII Sam E. Jonah, former CEO of Ashanti Goldfields Corporation and Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast Albert Ernest Thomas, member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1901 to 1905, and mine manager of mines in Coolgardie and Norseman Arthur Wilson, Cornwall and England rugby union player and member of the British team at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games Rex Tremlett, gold prospector, author, and broadcaster Geoffrey Healey, automotive engineer, famous for the Austin-Healey marque of motorcars Sophie Parkin, writer, artist, poet, and proprietor of an arts club See also The Mining Association of the United Kingdom Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Mining in Cornwall and Devon References External links Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus Camborne School of Mines Student society Camborne School of Mines Student CSM Association Camborne School of Mines unofficial guide Camborne School of Mines unofficial guide Camborne School of Mines Museum Index of Graduates 1898-1940 Northern Mine Research Society University of Exeter Combined Universities in Cornwall History of Cornwall Cornish mining organisations Museums in Cornwall Organisations based in Cornwall 1888 establishments in England Geology museums in England Mining in the United Kingdom Former schools and colleges of mining History of mining in the United Kingdom Mining museums in Cornwall Educational institutions established in 1888