Climbers from United Kingdom

Jim Donaldson spent his working life with the Bank of Scotland and served with the Black Watch in the Second World War, being awarded the MBE in 1942; he later lived in Braemar, where he was a founder member of the Braemar Mountain Rescue Team. He joined the SMC in 1950, was Hon. Treasurer from 1961 to 1976, President in 1976 and Honorary President in 1981, and edited Munro's Tables for many years. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 190 - Vol 37 - 1999 /library/7096/smcj-number-190---vol-37---1999

James Cornwallis Thomson joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1905, served on its Committee and, after war service abroad with the Highland Light Infantry, was Vice-President (1930-1932). He was appointed editor of the Club's 'Southern Highlands' guide book. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 140 - Vol 24 - May 1949 /library/7046/smcj-number-140---vol-24---may-1949

Harry Buckley was librarian of the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club for twenty years and a vice-president, and was in charge of many of its Gaping Gill camps; his own Gaping Gill descents began in 1903. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1934, 6(21) /library/10966/yrcj-1934;-6(21)

Industrial chemist (DSc, Edinburgh) and the leading Scottish mountaineer of the 1930s and 1940s. He made some 70 new routes, including the Long Climb on the Orion Face of Ben Nevis with J. D. B. Wilson in 1940, and edited the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal from 1936 to 1959. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 167 - Vol 31 - 1976 /library/7073/smcj-number-167---vol-31---1976

[2] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._H._B._Bell

James Maclay, LL.B., a partner in a legal firm, joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1892, took part in several new expeditions and climbed for many years in the Alps with his sisters and brother-in-law Godfrey Solly. Maclay's Chimney on the north peak of the Cobbler is named after him. [1]

References

[1] Obituary by W. W. Naismith in SMCJ Number 99 to 100 - Vol 17 - 1925 /library/7007/smcj-number-99-to-100---vol-17---1925

Polar explorer and geologist who sailed with Shackleton's Endurance expedition in 1914, made the first ascent of the Beerenberg on Jan Mayen in 1921 and of Petermann Peak in East Greenland in 1929, and became Master of St John's College, Cambridge in 1952. He joined the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1912 and in 1936 proposed the purchase of the Dalness Forest for the National Trust. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 154 - Vol 27 - May 1963 /library/7060/smcj-number-154---vol-27---may-1963

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

A geography teacher and later a sheep farmer at Brora in Sutherland, he served with the Lovat Scouts during the Second World War, including Alpine training in the Canadian Rockies in 1943, and completed the Munros in 1963. He served on the SMC Committee 1951-53 and was Vice-President from 1979 to 1981. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 189 - Vol 36 - 1998 /library/7095/smcj-number-189---vol-36---1998

James Parker Smith was a barrister and Liberal Unionist MP for Partick (1890-1906), and a Vice-President of the Scottish Mountaineering Club in the 1890s. In the access debate he opposed James Bryce's access to mountains bills, and wrote on the question in Blackwood's Magazine in 1891. [1] [2] [3]

References

[1] Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parker_Smith

[2] SMCJ Number 166 - Vol 30 - 1975 /library/7072/smcj-number-166---vol-30---1975

[3] SMCJ Number 7 to 12 - Vol 2 - 1892-1893 /library/6978/smcj-number-7-to-12---vol-2---1892-1893

Jim Stuttard, born in Huddersfield, who worked all his life for a firm of silk throwsters, joined the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club in 1957, climbed the Matterhorn and was a vice-president of the club. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in YRC Journal 1992, 11(40) /library/10977/yrcj-1992;-11(40)

James W. Drummond was senior director of the firm Wm. Drummond & Sons Ltd., a director of the Drummond Tract Society, a Justice of the Peace for Stirlingshire, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in SMCJ Number 119 - Vol 20 - Apr 1935 /library/7025/smcj-number-119---vol-20---apr-1935

[2] SMCJ Number 121 - Vol 21 - Apr 1936 /library/7027/smcj-number-121---vol-21---apr-1936

Janet Davies (née Cox, earlier Rogers) joined the Pinnacle Club in 1958 aged eighteen; she was on its committee 1962–63, edited its journal 1964–68, and was president 1969–71 and vice-president 1972–74. [1] [2]

References

[1] Obituary in Pinnacle Club Journal No. 31, 2018-2021 /library/9595/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-31-2018-2021

[2] Pinnacle Club Journal No. 28, 2009-2011 /library/9590/the-pinnacle-club-journal-no.-28-2009-2011

Janet Sutcliffe was a chemist turned nursing sister in Whitehaven and a leading fell runner and long-distance walker who won the Fellsman four times and walked the Bob Graham Round in 1981. She joined the Rucksack Club in 1995 and became its first female vice-president. [1]

References

[1] Obituary in Rucksack Club Journal 2007 /library/7674/rucksack-club-journal-2007

British big wall and alpine climber.

References

[1] Interview with Adrian Berry September 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20061022044354/http://www.planetfear.com/article_detail.asp?a_id=253

[2] Interview with Paul Twomey 1997, On The Edge Issue 67, page 26

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/in_focus/jethro_kiernan-16907