Prof Ernest Romney Matthews FRSE FGS MICE (1873-1930) was a British civil engineer and expert on coastal erosion.
He was the son of William Henry Matthews, the local chief coastguard and had a lifelong interest in the coast.
His proposers were James Geikie, John Horne, Ben Peach and Cargill Gilston Knott.
[1] In the First World War he had the unusual job of being in charge of trench sanitation, and oversaw the construction of latrines and drainage in France and Flanders.
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