Climbers from United Kingdom

References

[1] Poetry Please on BBC Radio 4 (July 2020) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kmrs

Aberdeen journalist and civic leader: Editor of the Aberdeen Free Press from 1914 to 1922 and Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1932 to 1935; he was knighted. He wrote the SMC Guide Book to the Cairngorms, served on the Scottish Mountaineering Club Committee in 1920-23 and was a Vice-President in 1931-33. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 130 - Vol 22 - Nov 1940 /library/7036/smcj-number-130---vol-22---nov-1940

War Office civil servant and Alpine climber, an original member of the Climbers' Club, on its committee, its honorary librarian 1911–28 and vice-president 1913–20. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Climbers' Club Journal 1938 /library/7439/climbers-club-1938-journal

Formerly of the Yorkshire Speleological Association, he took part in many major pot-holing expeditions, and his caravan near Castleton was a base for Derbyshire cave exploration; a vice-president of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1954, 8(27) /library/11037/yrcj-1954;-8(27)

Herbert Hartley was a chemist who invented the adhesive for the wartime 'sticky' anti-tank bomb and developed foamed polyurethane insulation. With Maurice Linnell he made many first ascents in the Pennines, and later, with Albert Hargreaves and Roy Horsman, he made new climbs in North Wales, the Lake District and Scotland. He was president of the Rucksack Club in 1954 and 1955 and secretary of the Mountain Rescue Committee from 1956 to 1980, and he died in Maryland, USA. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1986-1987 /library/7736/rucksack-club-journal-1986-1987

Herbert Mothersill had business interests in Manchester and was an expert in the Lancashire–India–East Africa cotton trade. He was an Alpine Club member from 1898, with ascents including a new route on the north face of the Breithorn in 1897. He joined the Rucksack Club in 1907 and was elected its president in 1928. He died after a street accident in June 1937. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1938 /library/7681/rucksack-club-journal-1938

[2] Alpine Journal 1937, Proceedings https://mail.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1937_files/AJ49%20309-310%20Proceedings.pdf

Mathematician who held the Regius Chair of Mathematics at St Andrews from 1921 to 1950 and edited the correspondence of Isaac Newton. He joined the SMC in 1930 and the Alpine Club in 1931, climbed guideless in the Alps from 1933, and was SMC President from 1948 to 1950. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 153 - Vol 27 - May 1962 /library/7059/smcj-number-153---vol-27---may-1962

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Westren_Turnbull

Hermann Woolley was a Manchester manufacturing chemist, Treasurer of Manchester University and President of the Alpine Club. He climbed in the Alps, the Caucasus (first ascent of Dych-tau), Norway, the Lofoten Islands and the Canadian Rockies, and was an original vice-president of the Rucksack Club. He died at Fairfield, Kersal, on 27 February 1920. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 1921 /library/7676/rucksack-club-journal-1921

[2] Rucksack Club Journal 1920 /library/7641/rucksack-club-journal-1920

A founder of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club in 1892, its first treasurer, then secretary and later president (1927–29), and the author of its history in the first journal. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1947, 7(24) /library/11047/yrcj-1947;-7(24)

[2] YRC Journal 1899, 1(1) /library/11049/yrcj-1899;-1(1)

President of the Pinnacle Club from 2014, she led the planning of the 2016 Pinnacle Club/BMC Women's International Climbing Meet; honorary secretary and then president of the Climbers' Club. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Climbers' Club Journal 2015-16 /library/7480/climbers-club-2015-16-journal

[2] Climbers' Club Journal 2019-20 /library/7371/climbers-club-2019-20-journal

[3] Climbers' Club Journal 2021-23 /library/7349/climbers-club-2021-23-journal

A laird who lived principally at Lindertis in Forfarshire, managing the family property, and the compiler of the 'Tables giving all the Scottish Mountains exceeding 3,000 feet in height' published in the first volume of the Journal, whose summits came to be called 'Munros'. He was a Vice-President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club from 1893 and its President from 1894 to 1897, and died at Tarascon in 1919 while running a canteen for French soldiers. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 87 to 88 - Vol 15 - 1919 /library/7001/smcj-number-87-to-88---vol-15---1919

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Munro

[3] SMCJ Number 13 to 18 - Vol 3 - 1894-1895 /library/6979/smcj-number-13-to-18---vol-3---1894-1895

[4] SMCJ Number 25 to 30 - Vol 5 - 1898-1899 /library/6982/smcj-number-25-to-30---vol-5---1898-1899

Edinburgh-born doctor and anatomist who worked for most of his career in the Anatomy Department at Dundee University, and an Arctic explorer who made 19 visits to Greenland from 1958 and was awarded the Polar Medal in 2015. He worked on the SMC Journal from around 1971, was SMC President 1990-1992 and became Honorary President in 2012. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 208 – Vol 45 - 2017 /library/7114/smcj-number-208-–-vol-45---2017

[2] Officers lists in SMCJ Number 182 - Vol 34 - 1991 /library/7088/smcj-number-182---vol-34---1991

[3] SMCJ Number 183 - Vol 35 - 1992 /library/7089/smcj-number-183---vol-35---1992