Cyril James Stubblefield

Sir (Cyril) James Stubblefield FRS (1901–1999) was a British geologist. Stubblefield was the President of the Geological Society of London from 1958 to 1960 and was the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1960 until 1966.

Stubblefield was born in Cambridge, only son of a gardener and his wife. He gained a scholarship to The Perse School, Cambridge.

After work as a junior factory chemist Stubblefield moved to London to continue his education at evening classes at the South-Western Polytechnic (later Chelsea College). He gained a further scholarship to Imperial College, London where he gained an ARCS and BSc in geology in 1923, with first class honours.

Sir Cyril James Stubblefield was a member of the Links Club of the City and Guilds College whilst at Imperial College.

Stubblefield was appointed demonstrator in geology at Imperial and began research into the early Palaeozoic rocks of Shropshire, gaining his PhD in 1925 and also the Daniel Pidgeon fund of the Geological Society, with Oliver Bulman. In 1929 he published the Handbook of the Geology of Great Britain with J. W. Evans.

In 1928 Stubblefield joined the Geological Survey, at the Museum of Practical Geology, where he soon joined the palaeontology department. Here he worked on the Lower Palaeozoic fossils of Shrewsbury, the Carboniferous of the coalfields of south Wales and Kent, and other rocks in Cumberland.

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