Kenneth Thomas St. George Cartwright FLS (1891 – 17 October 1964, Towersey)[1] was an English mycologist, known as a leading expert on timber mycology.
He then matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied botany under Sydney Howard Vines and forestry under William Schlich.
[4][5] In 1914 when WW I began, he joined the British Army as a commissioned officer in the Rifle Brigade.
In 1927 Cartwright became the Forest Products Research Laboratories' chief mycologist and held that post until he retired in 1948.
He, with his long-term collaborator Walter Philip Kennedy Findlay, coauthored the 1936 monograph The Principal Rots of English Oak and the 1946 book Decay of Timber and its Preservation.