Mayo Francis Carbutt

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Biografie:
Francis Carbutt Mayo (1905-76)
Francis Mayo was born on 21 April 1905. In 1919 he went to Rugby where he won the Junior Athletic Cup in 1921 and was in the school XV for 3 years, 1920-2. From Rugby he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking his degree in 1926. He was a member of the CUMC and at the Club meet at Entre-deux-Eaux in 1924 he joined with P. Wyn Harris and L. R. Wager in ascents of the Roc Noir, Pointe de Vallonet and Dome de Chasseforet. Next year he was again in the Tarentaise and climbed the Grande Casse and Aiguille de la Vanoise.
He qualified as a doctor from King's College Hospital in the late 'twenties and after his marriage in 1932 was assistant to 2 doctors at Penzance for a few months. He and his wife moved to Malton in October that year and, apart from the war years, he spent the rest of his professional life in Yorkshire. He had several more seasons in the Alps before the war and in the course of his career had also climbed in the Lake District, Wales and Scotland and had skiing holidays in Switzerland, Austria, Norway and the Lebanon. He was a member of the F & RCC and was elected to the AC in 1952, proposed by Michael Wilson and seconded by Ian Charleson.
Francis became MO to the Yorkshire Hussars and was on active service throughout the war, serving in Palestine, North Africa, Italy and Holland. He was mentioned in dispatches for his services in North Africa. As an ADMS he was in charge of British medical arrangements for the Potsdam conference.
After demobilization he returned to his practice in Malton and was later appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the East Riding.
Francis retired in May 1968 and worked with the York Samaritans. He became highly skilled at repairing and restoring old furniture and was commissioned to design and make a pair of oak chairs for the chapel of St Peter-ad-Vincula in the Tower of London and these were consecrated in 1975.
He died on 21 December 1976 after a slowly developing illness which only immobilized him a few weeks before the end. He was liked by all who knew him and our sympathy goes to his widow, and to his 2 daughters and their families.
His only son, a brilliant young climber, disappeared in the Alps in 1959 during a traverse of the Dom and Täschhorn.
D. F. O. Dangar
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 83, 1978, Seite 270


Geboren am:
21.04.1905
Gestorben am:
21.12.1976