Lewis John Evan Lloyd

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Biografie:
John Evan Lloyd Lewis (1897-1980)
John Lloyd Lewis, who was a member of the Club from 1954, was killed in a car accident on 17 July with his wife Kathleen. A schoolmaster by profession, he spent his early years in Ireland at Bishop Foy School, Waterford, and the school holidays allowed time for fairly extensive climbing in the Alps in the late 1920s and the 1930s.
During these years many of his climbs among the high peaks were done guideless, and though he was exceedingly modest about his achievements his knowledge of mountains was very great.
His climbing career included Mount Olympus from Katerini in 1918 and there then followed regular visits to the Pyrenees and then the Alps until the war intervened. 1945 saw him move home from Waterford to Tiverton, where he became a Master at Blundell's School, and his climbing career recommenced in 1950 when he took School parties to Grindelwald. Evan's son Richard accompanied him on many long expeditions in the Alps when aged 14 years, before his father finally decided to 'hang up his boots' in 1953", although he continued to do a good
deal of Alpine walking until 1960.
As well as being a keen climber Evan Lewis was a keen photographer as proved by the photographs of Alpine panoramas on his study walls. Distance from London prevented his regular appearance at the Alpine Club, but he took a keen interest in its activities and his Christmas cards could easily be detected on the mantelpiece! I came to know Evan Lewis not only through the Alpine Club but as the Housemaster of my two sons who were at Blundell's in his charge. My father, J. O. Walker of the AC, and I had many pleasant evenings of climbing talk with him on our visits to the school in Devon, and also when he came to see us in Surrey.
Evan Lloyd Lewis and his wife will be very sadly missed by their many friends all over the country.
Nancy S. Richardson and Richard Lewis
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 87, 1982, Seite 265-266



Geboren am:
1897
Gestorben am:
17.07.1980