Grenville Cole

Grenville Arthur James Cole FRS, FGS, MRIA (21 October 1859 – 20 April 1924) was an English geologist. He was from 1890 the Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and from 1905 the Director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.^[1]

Cole was born in London,^[2] and was the son of John Jenkins Cole (1815–1897) an architect, and Anna Maria Josephine Smith (b.c1832-1903).

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.

Works

• The Gypsy road; a journey from Krakow to Coblentz (1894)
• Open-air studies in geology (1902)
• Aids in practical geology (nd) 5th ed. 1906
• The changeful earth; an introduction to the record of the rocks (1911)
• Outlines of mineralogy for geological students (1913)
• The growth of Europe (1914)
• Ireland, the outpost (1919)
• General guide to the natural history collections : description of the raised map of Ireland (1920)
• Rocks and Their Origins (1924)
• Common Stones - unconventional essays in geology (not dated, 1921 ?)

References

1. "obit. Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, F.R.S.". Nature 113 (2844): 649–650. 3 May 1924. doi:10.1038/113649a0.
2. Jackson, P. N. Wyse (2007). "Grenville Arthur James Cole (1857-1924): the cycling geologist". Geological Society, London, Special Publications 287: 135–147. doi:10.1144/SP287.11.

External links

• Works written by or about Grenville Arthur James Cole at Wikisource
• Works by or about Grenville Cole at Internet Archive
• Works by Grenville Cole at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)