Savannah Johnson Speak

Savannah Johnson Speak (4 September 1868 – 29 December 1929) was an English mining engineer and metallurgist.

[3] He was schooled at Saltaire[4] and received his advanced education at the Yorkshire College (1886–89)[5] which specialised in scientific and technical subjects such as mining and geology and eventually was adsorbed into the University of Leeds.

He was a metallurgist at the Geldenhuis Deep Gold Mine, Johannesburg, in 1895-97 and worked in the Dutch East Indies 1898-99.

[7] He also worked in West Africa, Celebes, Korea, British Columbia, Siberia, Argentina, and Northern Rhodesia.

[7] In the 1920s, Speak was resident at Monkenhurst, New Barnet, on the edge of Monken Hadley Common.