Chew Frederic Robert

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Biografie:
Frederic Robert Ganset Chew 1907-1970
'Bobby' Chew was born in May 1907 and died suddenly of a heart attack in September 1970. As his father was a keen mountaineer who had retired to the Lake District he started climbing at an early age, leading, amongst other climbs, the Innominate Crack on Kern Knotts and the New West on Pillar. After Sedbergh and St. John's College, Cambridge (where, with myself, he kept in training as a roof climber), he joined Kurt Hahn at Salem in 1929. When the latter fled from Hitler's wrath Chew accompanied him and helped him to found Gordonstoun School in Morayshire. He served throughout the war with the Seaforth Highlanders and finished as a Lieutenant-Colonel in Norway, where he met and married a charming widow who was a great help to him when he returned to Gordonstoun as a housemaster and, from 1953 to 1967. as Headmaster.
He climbed in the Alps each year from 1927 to 1931. In 1928 he traversed the Meije with Jack Longland, Lawrence Wager and myself. In the following season he climbed the Rimpfischhorn, the Wellenkuppe and the Ober Gabelhorn. He joined the Alpine Club in 1942.
Bobby Chew was an able mathematics teacher, a reliable mountaineer and yachtsman and a skilled player and coach of rugby, hockey and tennis. When he left Gordonstoun he retired to the Lake District and was awarded the C.V.O. for having been Prince Philip's mentor and Prince Charles's headmaster. He will be remembered for his quick laugh and puckish sense of humour, but much more for his shining integrity and tremenduus sense of duty.
F. Spencer Chapman
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 76, 1971, Seite 323-324



Geboren am:
05.1907
Gestorben am:
09.1970