British Council Office in China: Mr. C. M. G. Bolton

Abstract

MR. C. M. G. BOLTON has left for China to join the staff of the British Council in Chungking as a geological specialist. Born in Plymouth in 1904, the son of the late Commander A. W. Bolton, R.N., from Berkhamsted School he went to Merton College, Oxford, and graduated in the Honours School of Natural Science in geology. He worked with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Persia, and later was field geologist to the Finsbury Pavement House group of mining companies, working in the Gold Coast area, and was associated with oil-boring in Sussex. In 1940 he joined the R.A.F. and served in Iceland, where he studied the geology, and in 1942 was appointed to the Military Mission in Moscow. In 1944 he was seconded to a military unit to carry out researches on military geology. Mr. Bolton is a fellow of the Geological Society and an associate member of the Institute of Petroleum. As a practising field geologist, he has travelled widely-across Persia from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea and beyond to Moscow, twice across the Sahara from West Africa to Algeria and Morocco, across Africa from West Africa to Kenya, and through the Sudan and the Levant.