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Charles Thomas Clough was born at Huddersfield in 1853. He was educated at Rugby, 1867-1871, and at St John's College, Cambridge, 1871-1875. In the latter year he joined the Geological Survey of England, and in 1884 was transferred to Scotland. He was promoted District Geologist in 1902, and served as such until his death in 1916.

In 1881 he married Anna Mary, youngest daughter of Thomas Durham, shipowner, of Shields, who survives him with two daughters and a son.

Clough was a man animated among other motives by a passion for work and for the simple life. To some extent, idealism led him beyond his taste in this latter direction, and for many years he was both teetotaller and vegetarian. In politics he was a radical, and inclined to accept peace at almost any price. But in regard to the Great War he had no doubts; and it was a source of gratification that his son returned from Canada unasked to do his bit. In religion he was definitely theistic. In action he was goodness, gentleness and kindness personified.

The quiet nobility of Clough's character is well illustrated in his conduct at the time he met his fatal accident. I quote from Sir Jethro Teall's “ Obituary ” in The Eagle, for December 1916. “ On Wednesday, the 23rd August last, while examining rock exposures between Bo'ness and Manuel, he had occasion to cross the railway and, misjudging the speed of a train, was knocked down and severely injured. He