The Camborne School of Mines is founded…

The Camborne School of Mines is founded at Penryn in Cornwall, England, in 1888.

John Taylor had first published his Prospectus for a School of Mines in Cornwall in 1829, and in 1838 Sir Charles Lemon offered to establish a school for miners; classes had begun in Truro the following year, and in 1858 The Miners Association was formed and began classes in different mining areas of Cornwall, such as Camborne, Pool, St. Just and St. Agnes.

Some two hundred students attended classes in eleven mining education centers in Cornwall by 1863.

Gustavus Lambert Basset, the great mine entrepreneur, had made a bequest in 1876 to build a laboratory in Camborne, The Basset building, for the use of the pupils of The Miners Association; the adjacent Camborne Science and Art School building opened in 1882.

J.J. Beringer had delivered a lecture to the Miners Association, now called the Mining Institute, in 1887, in which he outlined new proposals for the establishment of a Mining School.