Warren Nigel Sebastian Sommerville

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Nigel Sebastian Sommerville Warren (1912-1967)
Nigel Warren's sudden death, at the comparatively early age of fifty five, came as a great shock to his family and friends. Although he no doubt lacked opportunities to indulge in his favourite pastime of hill walking, he always gave the impression of physical fitness, and every week-end saw him at his home on the southern slope of Crook's Peak, that noble westernmost bastion of the Mendip hills.
He was educated at Clifton, where he played in the Rugby XV, and Hertford College, Oxford. During the Second World War, he served in the Wiltshire Yeomanry, but was seconded to the Judge Advocate General's Office, and finished with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
He was called to the Bar in 1936, and, with a successful Chancery practice, took silk in 1959· He was elected a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1964.
He had not, for some years, done any serious climbing, and I think it fair to say that his preference was always for ridge walking, although he had climbed in the Dolomites, and I recall a few sunny days with him in and around Chamonix before the Second World War and, in particular, a happy one on the Dent du Requin. He was elected to the Alpine Club in 1935, thereby following in his father's footsteps, and his qualifying climbs included in 1928 (his first alpine season) several of the lesser Chamonix aiguilles, and in 1929-35 numerous smaller peaks and passes in the Oberland and among the Dolomites, particularly the Brenta group. He was also a great lover of alpine flora, as evidenced by a small, specially constructed alpine garden at his former home in Bristol.
Her was an inveterate traveller, and, being unmarried, was invariably accompanied on his travels by his mother. These travels ranged as far as Mexico, but, for many years, Soglio was his favourite resting place. He was a man of great intellectual gifts and with an enviably retentive memory: indeed, his knowledge of churches and art galleries in countries visited by him was encyclopaedic. He inherited from his father a unique collection of English (largely Bristol) Delftware, which he gave in his lifetime to the Ashmolean at Oxford.
It can truly be said that Nigel was a man with great gifts, who enjoyed his life, both when at work and at leisure, to the full.
M. G. Meade-King.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 72, 1967, Seite 361


Geboren am:
1912
Gestorben am:
1967