T. C. (Thomas Crosbee) Cantrill

Thomas Crosbee Cantrill was an English geologist and antiquary, born in 1867 and educated at Mason's College, Birmingham, where he graduated with a B.Sc. in 1891. Early in his career he studied under the influential geologist Charles Lapworth, and he went on to spend more than three decades on the field staff of the Geological Survey.

Much of his professional work centered on Wales, especially the geology of the South Wales coalfield. He was known not only for geological mapping and survey work, but also for a wider interest in archaeology. Later accounts of his career note that his fieldwork often brought him into contact with ancient monuments and local sites, and after retiring in 1927 he devoted more of his time to local archaeology.

For audiobook listeners, Cantrill is also associated with George Borrow's Second Tour in Wales, a literary and historical work connected with Borrow's travels through Wales. He died in 1931, remembered as someone whose work linked close observation of the land with an equally lively interest in the history written across it.