C. P. (Charles Penrhyn) Gasquoine

Very little biographical information about this author is readily available online, but library and public-domain records identify C. P. Gasquoine as Charles Penrhyn Gasquoine, born in 1871. He is chiefly remembered for The Story of the Cambrian: A Biography of a Railway, a work that has remained of interest to railway historians and general readers alike.

The book was published in 1922, and contemporary title-page information describes him as the editor of the Border Counties Advertizer. That helps place him as a writer closely connected to the region he wrote about, which likely gave his railway history its strong sense of place and detail.

Because so little else can be confirmed from reliable online sources, it is safest to view Gasquoine as a specialized local historian and journalist whose reputation rests mainly on this one substantial contribution to railway literature.