Cecil Carus-Wilson

Cecil Carus-Wilson JP FRSE FGS FRGS (1857–1934) was a 20th-century British local politician who served as Mayor of Twickenham[1] but who is remembered as an amateur geologist.

He specialised in the acoustic properties of rocks.[2]

Life

He 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
  • 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

He 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


  1. "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.
  2. Carus-Wilson, Cecil (January 1906). "Sounding Stones". Nature. 73 (1889): 246. Bibcode:1906Natur..73Q.246C. doi:10.1038/073246c0.
  3. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1910). "Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour".
  4. "Rev William Wilson Carus-Wilson, MA".
  5. 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 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  6. "Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science". 1917.
  7. London Gazette 8 November 1929
  8. "Catalogue description Name Carus-Wilson, Cecil Caradoc Date of Birth: 25 April 1892 Rank".
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