The boom in metal mining in the late 1800s resulted in numerous British workers travelling to many other countries in search of work and opportunity.

Reginald Bonham Carter, a young English engineer, spent about eight years in Spain, and played a significant part in the British and Spanish community in Linares, a lead mining town in Jaen Province, where he mainly lived and worked. He was well liked by all.

The Bonham Carter family knew Reginald as 'Reggie', but to the Spanish he was affectionately known as 'Don Regino'. Coming from an influential family, his story is an...