| Administrative History | Kenneth Neville Moss was born 30 May 1891, the eldest son of William Moss of Penns, Warwickshire. He was educated at Queen Mary's School, Walsall and Birmingham University. He gained practical mining experience in the Cannock Chase, South Yorkshire, and North Staffordshire coalfields. During the First World War, served in the army as Adjutant to the 59th Divisional Royal Engineers, 1915-1919 and was twice mentioned in despatches and was awarded the OBE. For one year after the war he was Organiser of Mining Instruction for the county of Derbyshire. He was appointed as Assistant Professor of Mining, Birmingham University in1920, becoming Professor in 1922. He served as a member of a number of research and other committees relating to mining and he studied mining conditions in France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Canada, USA, South Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia. His publications included Gases, Dust and Heat in Mines ; 'Some Effect of High Air Temperatures and Muscular Exertion upon Colliers', in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ; several papers in Mining Journals. He was editor and part author of Historical Review of Coal Mining . He was married to Dorothy, daughter of late Professor R. Warington, FRS, MA and had four daughters. He died on 20 October 1942
Reference: 'Who was who 1941-1950' |