Charles Clough (geologist)

Charles Thomas Clough MA, LLD, FGS, FRSE (23 December 1852 – 27 August 1916) was a prominent British geologist and mapmaker.

He attended Rugby School from 1867 to 1871, and in 1871 was accepted at St John's College, Cambridge, to study Natural Sciences.

In the summer of 1916 St Andrews University awarded him an Honorary degree as a Doctor of Laws (LLD).

On 23 August 1916 Clough was studying rocks in a narrow railway cutting, near Manuel House, south of Bo'ness, Falkirk, when he was struck by a train as he crossed the line and severely injured, necessitating the amputation of both legs, at Edinburgh Infirmary.

Clough published several papers on the geology of Scottish coalfields in cooperation with fellow geologist Charles Hawker Dinham.