Cecil Carus-Wilson JP FRSE FGS FRGS (18 October 1857–24 September 1934) was a 20th-century British local politician who served as Mayor of Twickenham[1] but who is remembered as an amateur geologist.
Cecil Carus-Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Twickenham | |
| In office ?–? | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 October 1857 Weston-super-Mare, England |
| Died | 24 September 1934 (aged 76) Bristol, England |
| Relatives | William Carus Wilson (grandfather) |
He specialised in the acoustic properties of rocks.[2]
Life
editHe was born in Weston-super-Mare on 18 October 1857,[3] the 5th son of 11 children of Rev William Carus-Wilson (1822–1883) and his wife, Mary Letablere Litton.[4] He was grandson of Rev William Carus Wilson.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1898 for his contributions to geology. His proposers were Robert Etheridge, Sir William Abbott Herdman, Hugh Robert Mill and Peter Guthrie Tait.[5] He was also a Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the Twickenham Literary and Scientific Society.[6]
In 1911 he inherited Casterton Hall in Westmorland from his elder brother Rev William Carus-Wilson (1845–1911).
In 1929 he was living at "Altmore" in Waldegrave Park, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham.[7]
He died in Bristol on 24 September 1934.
Publications
edit- Musical Sand (1888)
- The Works of Archibald Geikie (1890)
- Floating Stones (1900)
- Super-Cooled Rain Drops (1905)
- Sounding Stones (1906)
- The Pitting of Flint Surfaces (1909)
Family
editHe married Barbara Julia Chalk (1863–1934). He was father to Cecil Caradoc Carus-Wilson (b.1892) who served as a Captain in the First World War.[8]
References
edit- ^ "William Richard Hodgkinson, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 55: 178. 15 September 2014. doi:10.1017/S0370164600014656.
- ^ Carus-Wilson, Cecil (January 1906). "Sounding Stones". Nature. 73 (1889): 246. Bibcode:1906Natur..73Q.246C. doi:10.1038/073246c0.
- ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). "Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour".
- ^ "Rev William Wilson Carus-Wilson, MA".
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ^ "Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science". 1917.
- ^ London Gazette 8 November 1929
- ^ "Catalogue description Name Carus-Wilson, Cecil Caradoc Date of Birth: 25 April 1892 Rank".