Knox Howard Vicente

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Biografie:
Howard Vicente Knox (1868- 1960).
The late H. V. Knox, who died on April 15 last, in his 92nd year, was a member of the Alpine Club from 1907- 39. A soldier by profession, he passed out from Sandhurst to the Norfolk Regiment in October 1890, but ill-health, which hampered his career on a number of occasions, caused him to resign his commission in April 1891, though he got back on to the Reserve in 1900. The following year he was appointed Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Regt. and was stationed in Gibraltar and Malta, only to be invalided out again, as Captain, in 1903. In September 1914 he was gazetted Captain in the Oxford and Bucks L.I., but he spent most of the first two years of the war in training depots, until in October 1916 he was appointed a Balloon Officer in the R.F.C., serving in France until once more his health broke down, although he managed to see the war through to the end, in England.
After the War, he was domestic bursar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, but had retired by 1930, in which year he married. He wrote on philosophy, and the Writer's Who's Who gives details of his works. When elected to the A.C. in February 1907, his list of climbs was a short one, although his first season in the Alps was as far back as 1885. He was out again in 1888, in the Engadine (Piz Bernina and Piz Scerscen amongst others), but there were no visits thereafter until 1905, when he accomplished several standard routes in the Oberland, in part guideless with F. W. Bourdillon. In 1906 he was with F.C.S. Schiller for a while, in the Engadine and Dolomites, but proceeded to the Oberland and Valais for what appears to be the best season he ever had. Some of his entries are very baldly stated: “Mittellegi traverse” is suggestive, and, led by Joseph Lochmatter, he made the second descent of the Schalligrat of the Weisshorn (A.J. 59, 217).
He does not seem to have done any rnore big climbs, though he was out in Switzerland again in 1910. During the last War he was in the Civil Defence, but since then had led a very quiet life.
T.S.B.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 65, 1960, Seite 225

1888 1.Beg.Piz Bernina von der Bovalhütte aus,4049 m, (Berninagruppe)
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Geboren am:
1868
Gestorben am:
15.04.1960