R. H. Rastall

Robert Heron Rastall (November 8, 1871, Turnerdale Hall near Whitby, North Yorkshire – February 3, 1950) was a British geologist and academic associated with the University of Cambridge. He was a co-editor-in-chief of Geological Magazine.

Early life Robert Heron Rastall was the eldest son of the Cambridge alumnus Herbert Augustus Henry Rastall (1847–1910) of the manor Turnerdale Hall near Whitby. After studying agricultural science and taking a diploma from the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Robert H. Rastall held an appointment as a staff member of the Tamworth Agricultural College and Training Farm, which was in operation from 1886 to 1914. In 1899 he matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge. There he studied geology and graduated with a B.A. with 1903 and an M.A. in 1906.

Career In London at Messrs. Wren and Gurney's, he was a lecturer in geology from 1903 to 1906 and from 1908 to 1909.

Honors In 1926, Rastall was awarded the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall and in 1946 he was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.

Selected publications Articles 1905

Books (2nd edition, 1912) (4th edition 1927)

(The geologist Thomas Crook (1876–1937) was made O.B.E. in 1936. )

(There are several subsequent editions with various editors.)