Cecil Edgar Tilley

Cecil Edgar Tilley was an Australian British petrologist and mineralogist born May 14, 1894, in Unley, Adelaide, Australia, who died January 24, 1973, in Cambridge, England, and who worked at the University of Cambridge from 1923, becoming the university first professor of Mineralogy and Petrology in 1931 following Alfred Harker retirement and serving until 1961. He identified and named the minerals larnite and scawtite during investigations at Scawt Hill, Northern Ireland, in 1929, and conducted influential research on metamorphism, basalt magmas, and Hawaiian volcanoes. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1938, served as president of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1948 to 1951 and president of the Geological Society in 1949 and 1950, received the Royal Medal in 1967, was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1957, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1960.