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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 but who is remembered as an amateur geologist.

He specialised in the acoustic properties of rocks.

Life

He was born in Weston-super-Mare on 18 October 1857, the 5th son of 11 children of Rev William Carus-Wilson (1822–1883) and his wife, Mary Letablere Litton. 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. He was also a Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the Twickenham Literary and Scientific Society.

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.

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.

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 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
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".

• 1857 births
• 1934 deaths
• People from Weston-super-Mare
• British geologists
• Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh