Clement Lindley Wragge (18 September 185210 December 1922), was a
meteorologist born in
Stourbridge,
Worcestershire,
England, but moved to Oakamoor, Staffordshire as a child. He set up the Wragge Museum in Stafford following a trip around the world. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1879 was elected Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society in London. To the end of his life, he was interested in Theosophy and spiritualism and during his tour of
India, met with
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, founder of the
Ahmadiyya movement in Islam who had claimed to be the
Mahdi, the messianic redeemer awaited by Muslims.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle sought him out in New Zealand to ask for his views on spiritualism before writing 'The Wanderings of a Spiritualist'in 1921. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of
meteorology, winning the
Scottish Meteorological Society's Gold Medal and years later starting the trend of using
people's names for cyclones. He travelled widely giving lectures in London and India, and in his later years was a reliable authority on
Australia,
India and the
Pacific Islands.