C. P. (Charles Penrhyn) Gasquoine

Born in 1871, Charles Penrhyn Gasquoine wrote under the name C. P. Gasquoine. The clearest detail confirmed from his own book is that he was editor of the Border Counties Advertizer, linking him closely to the Welsh border country that also shaped his best-known subject.

Gasquoine is known for The Story of the Cambrian: A Biography of a Railway, published in 1922. In it, he recounts the development of the Cambrian Railways with the eye of both a journalist and a local historian, combining company history, regional detail, and memorable figures from the railway's past.

Little biographical information about him is easy to confirm from reliable online sources beyond his birth year and authorship. Even so, his surviving work shows a writer interested in preserving the story of a major railway system and the communities it served.