| Cecil Carus-Wilson | |
| Office1: | Mayor of Twickenham |
| Term Start1: | ? |
| Term End1: | ? |
| Birth Date: | 18 October 1857 |
| Birth Place: | Weston-super-Mare, England |
| Death Place: | Bristol, England |
| Relatives: | William Carus Wilson (grandfather) |
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.
He specialised in the acoustic properties of rocks.[2]
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.
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]