Buzzard John Huxley

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Biografie:
John Huxley Buzzard 1913-1984
Educated at Wellington and New College, Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1937 and practised in criminal law, becoming in 1954 a Treasury Counsel. In 1974 he was appointed a circuit judge sitting at the Central Criminal Court in London. A few days after that appointment he received at home a letter bomb which blew off part of two fingers. He remained on the bench, widely respected and loved for his impartiality, magnanimity and compassion, until in 1983 a serious illness beset him.
He edited Archbold the leading textbook for English 'criminal lawyers, solicitors, barristers and judges. During the war he served in the RAF, becoming a Wing Commander and working in Air Ministry Intelligence, receiving a mention in despatches.
He was elected to the Club in 1946, his application for membership showing numerous guided climbs in the Engelberg pre-war and then ascents of various peaks above Sonamarg in 1945 as a climbing instructor at the Aircrew Mountain Centre, Kashmir. In 1944 he attempted Nandagunti, Garhwal, with Basil Goodfellow.
He was a member ofthe Himalayan and Climbers' Clubs, and his other hobbies were farming, skiing and sailing, but after his marriage in 1946 he gave up venturesome expeditions. His wife and 3 children survive him.
J. M. Hartog writes:
One sunny day of summer 1938, my family were walking up Tryfan in N Wales and had halted for a rest when a pleasant young man in his mid-twenties wearing grey flannels and plimsolls came up and passed the time of day. My father was a believer in boots with clinker nails and all five of us were so equipped, and duly the family was given a lecture on the folly of venturing with inadequate footwear.
Later when we were picnicking from our adequate rucsacs at the top of the mountain the young man reappeared. He said he had climbed up Belle Vue Bastion: this meant nothing to us, but we chatted and discovered that he was a barrister and staying alone at Helyg, the Climbers' Club cottage. Presently we gathered that his rucsac was only loaded with a pullover and a cape, whereupon my mother suggested he shared our meal as we had ample. When we had finished eating he offered to take me, then 16, on a rock scramble. This turned out to be North Buttress, an easy route perhaps, but John Buzzard took a fit keen youngster through that essential stage for the mountaineer - the first rockclimb.
I never saw him again but met someone in the Alps after the war who said Buzzard had been in his party but had not taken to higher mountains and had returned home to climb in Wales which he preferred.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 90, 1985, Seite 280


Geboren am:
1913
Gestorben am:
1984