Harry Spilsbury


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From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Date of death May 1970
Gender Male
Groups
The Rucksack Club President 1946–1948
Vice-President 1948–1950
Member 1940–1946
Member 1950–1952
Member 1953–1954
Member 1955–1958

Harry Spilsbury was an H.M. Inspector of Taxes serving in Manchester, Warrington and Liverpool, a skier and mountain photographer, and wrote a guide to the Lofoten Islands for the Wayfarers' Club journal in 1937. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1936 and was its president in 1946-47, and was also President of the Wayfarers' Club in 1935-36 and of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club from 1958. He was killed in a fall on Beinn Alligin in May 1970. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1971 /library/7655/rucksack-club-journal-1971

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13 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Quick Info

From United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Date of death May 1970
Gender Male
Groups
The Rucksack Club President 1946–1948
Vice-President 1948–1950
Member 1940–1946
Member 1950–1952
Member 1953–1954
Member 1955–1958

Harry Spilsbury was an H.M. Inspector of Taxes serving in Manchester, Warrington and Liverpool, a skier and mountain photographer, and wrote a guide to the Lofoten Islands for the Wayfarers' Club journal in 1937. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1936 and was its president in 1946-47, and was also President of the Wayfarers' Club in 1935-36 and of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club from 1958. He was killed in a fall on Beinn Alligin in May 1970. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1971 /library/7655/rucksack-club-journal-1971

Contributors
13 contributions since 10th October 2026.

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