Cecil Edgar Tilley
Cecil Edgar Tilley
British
petrologist and geologist.
Life
He was born in
Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia
-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.
Cecil was educated at
First World War, he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh in Scotland to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply. He returned to Australia in December 1918.[2]
He won an
Second World War.[3]
In 1929, while investigating a
In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of London
and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.
From 1948 to 1951 he was President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. He was President of the
Geological Society 1949/50. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1957.[5]
He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973 aged 78, and his body was cremated.
Family
In 1928 he married Irene Doris Marshall at Holy Trinity Church, Kingsway, London.[6]
They had one daughter.
Publications
- Alfred Harker 1859-1939 (1940) co-written with Albert Seward
- Waldemar Christofer Brogger 1851-1940 (1941)
- Hawaiian Volcanoes (1961)
- Origin of Basalt Magmas (1962)
References
- S2CID 73299810.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Tilley, Cecil Edgar (1894–1973)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ^ "Scawt Hill". www.habitas.org.uk.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Tilley, Cecil Edgar (1894–1973)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
External links
- G. A. Chinner, Memorial of Cecil Edgar Tilley 14 May 1894 – 24 January 1973, American Mineralogist, Volume 59, pages 427-437, 1974
- Tilley, Cecil Edgar (1894–1973) Australian Dictionary of Biography
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