Rex Tremlett

Horace Rex Tremlett (8 June 1903 – 1986) was a British-South African mining engineer, journalist and fascist activist.

[1] Her best-known book, With the Tin Gods (1914), is an account of her experience in Africa as she accompanied her husband on a journey from Lagos to Niger, and into Nigeria until 1912.

[7] Tremlett worked as a mining engineer and a journalist in Johannesburg, then moved back to England.

[10] In 1949 Tremlett was the subject of the black-and-white 3m27s-long BBC television documentary Cornish Farmer Turns Tin Miner, which tells his story as he was reworking an old mine on his farm near St Austell, Cornwall, during the post-WWII recovery period.

[citation needed] Tremlett published his autobiography in three parts: Easy Going (1940), the story of his experiences with various cultures on three continents,[12] Road to Ophir (1956), the story of his past life as a mining engineer in Africa,[8] and Gold in the Morning Sun (1983), which he subtitled "travels and adventures of a new West Australian".