Grenville Arthur James Cole FRS, FGS, MRIA (21 October 1859 – 20 April 1924) was an English geologist.
Cole supported women in their geological studies, including by teaching at Bedford College, London between 1886 and 1890.
[3] Mabel Crawford MacDowall was one of Cole's students at the Royal College of Science for Ireland.
She then deployed her talents in the Geological Survey by studying fossils from the Leinster coalfield, and publishing a paper in 1920, under the Directorship of Cole (Herries Davis, 1995).
Eventually Cole and Vernon were married, and she produced fine drawings of his thin section petrography, to illustrate his published papers (Wyse Jackson, 1989).