Charles Hawker Dinham BA FRSE (1883-1955) was a British geologist, cartographer and author of numerous scientific textbooks.
He was born on 7 July 1883, to Charles Dinham (1846-1895) and Beatrice Mary Pike (1858-1938) [2] They lived at 33 Broadhurst Gardens in Hampstead.
Little is known of his life but he appears to have studied Classics and then Geology (Natural Science) at Magdalen College, Oxford[5] under Robert Gunther, in whose papers (folio 263) Dinham is described as "commoner, 1902-1906".
[7] In June 1910 he was appointed Geologist on the Geological Survey of Great Britain by the Board of Education (a senior civil servant position).
On joining the survey he was initially charged with investigating the metamorphic rocks of Sutherland and on the Midland Valley coalfields.