{{Short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Cecil Carus-Wilson | image = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Mayor of Twickenham | term_start1 = ? | term_end1 = ? | birth_date = {{birth date|1857|10|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = Weston-super-Mare, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1934|09|24|1857|10|18|df=yes}} | death_place = Bristol, England | education = | 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<ref>{{cite journal |title=William Richard Hodgkinson, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D. |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=15 September 2014 |volume=55 |pages=178 |doi=10.1017/S0370164600014656 |doi-access=free }}</ref> but who is remembered as an amateur geologist.
He specialised in the acoustic properties of rocks.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Carus-Wilson |first1=Cecil |title=Sounding Stones |journal=Nature |date=January 1906 |volume=73 |issue=1889 |pages=246 |doi=10.1038/073246c0 |bibcode=1906Natur..73Q.246C |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1714911 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Life== He was born in Weston-super-Mare on 18 October 1857,<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2VHAQAAMAAJ&q=cecil+carus+wilson+twickenham |title = Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour|last1 = Fox-Davies|first1 = Arthur Charles|year = 1910}}</ref> the 5th son of 11 children of Rev William Carus-Wilson (1822–1883) and his wife, Mary Letablere Litton.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-William-Carus-Wilson-MA/6000000016279665220 | title=Rev William Wilson Carus-Wilson, MA}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2019-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was also a Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and President of the Twickenham Literary and Scientific Society.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pMbTkgYvT20C&q=cecil+carus+wilson+twickenham |title = Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science|year = 1917}}</ref>
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.<ref>London Gazette 8 November 1929</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D8114429 | title=Catalogue description Name Carus-Wilson, Cecil Caradoc Date of Birth: 25 April 1892 Rank}}</ref>
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