Charles Eugene De Rance

Charles Eugene De Rance (22 November 1847 – 9 May 1906) was a British geologist and writer.

Early life and education De Rance was born in 1847, the son of Colonel De Rance, who was a member of the French National Guard and who was exiled from his homeland during the French Revolution of 1848, the year after his son's birth. Charles's mother was also a native of France. She was the daughter of Colonel Turquand.

He studied at King's College School, London, before training in the office of engineer R. W. Mylne. He began working for the British Geological Survey in 1868. According to Professor A. C. Ramsay, who was director for England and Wales, De Rance was able to "survey a large tract with the skill of an old geologist". De Rance mainly worked in Cheshire, Flintshire and Lancashire. and on the Cretaceous strata in England's southwest appeared in Geological Magazine in 1868 and 1874.

In 1877, he released Superficial Geology of the Country Adjoining the Coasts of S.W. Lancashire. book on The Water Supply of England and Wales in 1882.

De Rance resigned from the Geological Survey in 1898, but maintained a private practice in Blackpool as a consulting mining and water engineer. He was 58.