Yeames James Lamb

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Biografie:
JAMES LAMB YEAMES
1873- 1960
THE late J. L. Yeames, who died at Helen's Bay, Co. Down, on June 16 last, was elected to the Alpine Club in 1922. The record of his climbing up to then runs from 1908 and shows him to have been particularly attached to the Arolla district. He remained very faithful to Swiss mountains and only once strayed by visiting Savoy and the Gratans; he continued his visits to the mountains for many years, climbing with his wife (sister to a former Member, Robert Workman) and his children.
An Engineer by profession, he was probably but little known to members of the Club, as he mostly lived far from London. After serving an apprenticeship with Harland and Wolff, Belfast, he joined Vickers at Barrow until he went out to the Argentine, where he was occupied in railway construction. He returned to North Ireland to take over the Managership of Workman, Clark & Co. in Belfast, where he was for a number of years, later holding a similar post with William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland.
He was born in Taganrog, in South Russia, where his father was Consul General. His uncle, William Yeames, R.A., was a well-known painter in his day, and young J. L. Yeames figures in one notable picture at least, for he posed as the small boy being questioned by some stern-looking Roundheads in the painting, now in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, “And When Did You Last See Your Father?” There was a time when this famous picture, along with another, “The Boyhood of Raleigh”, found a place in many homes, as well as in school history books. If we have been unable to discover any notable mountaineering feats in Mr. Yeames's life, he has at any rate secured for himself a small permanent niche in Art.
T. S. BLAKENEY.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 65, 1960, Seite 271-272


Geboren am:
1873
Gestorben am:
16.06.1960