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Fell & Rock Climbing Club | Club | United Kingdom 🇬🇧

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Also known as The Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District and FRCC.
Founded 1906-1907.

The principal climbing club of the English Lake District, founded at Coniston in 1906–07, which has admitted women from its early years. It publishes the definitive Lake District rock-climbing guidebooks.

Sources: Wikipedia: Fell & Rock Climbing Club, FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club

Contributors
206 contributions since 10th October 2026.

Members

17 recorded climbers.

Founders

Climber Period Notes
Ashley Perry Abraham from 1906-1907

Founding member with his brother George. Source: Wikipedia: Fell & Rock Climbing Club
George Dixon Abraham from 1906-1907

Founding member with his brother Ashley. Source: Wikipedia: Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Presidents

Climber Period Notes
Ashley Perry Abraham 1907–1908

First president (A. P. Abraham). Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
William Cecil Slingsby 1910–1912

Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Walter Parry Haskett Smith 1912–1917

Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club; FRCC Journal 1914, List of Officers
Godfrey A. Solly 1919–1921

G. A. Solly. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Robert Chorley 1935–1937

R. S. T. Chorley. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club; Wikipedia: Roger Chorley
Albert Hargreaves 1952–1954

A. B. Hargreaves. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Howard Somervell 1954–1956

T. H. Somervell. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club

Vice-Presidents

Climber Period Notes
George Dixon Abraham 1908–1910

Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
William Cecil Slingsby 1912–1914

Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Lehmann J. Oppenheimer 1914–1917

Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club; FRCC Journal 1914, List of Officers
Robert Chorley 1927–1929

R. S. T. Chorley. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
George Bower 1929–1931

G. S. Bower. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Bentley Beetham 1937–1939

B. Beetham. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Cecil Frederick Holland 1937–1939

C. F. Holland. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Katharine Chorley 1939–1943

Listed as Mrs. R. S. T. Chorley. Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club
Albert Hargreaves 1947–1949

A. B. Hargreaves (identity per his Independent obituary). Source: FRCC Journal 1956 (Vol. 17 no. 3), Officers of the Club

Honorary Members

Climber Period Notes
William Cecil Slingsby from 1907

Made an honorary member when the club was founded in 1907. Source: Wikipedia: William Cecil Slingsby

Members

Climber Period Notes
Bill Birkett

Source: Wikipedia: Bill Birkett
Dorothy Pilley

Joined the Fell & Rock Climbing Club as a young woman, before helping found the Pinnacle Club. Source: Wikipedia: Dorothy Pilley Richards
Eleanor Winthrop Young

Served on the club's committee. Source: Wikipedia: Eleanor Winthrop Young
Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Source: Wikipedia: Geoffrey Winthrop Young
Howard Somervell

Joined the club at the age of eighteen. Source: Wikipedia: Howard Somervell
Katharine Chorley

Became 'one of the (FRCC) Club's most active members'. Source: Wikipedia: Katharine Chorley