Bozman Ernest Franklin

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Biografie:
Ernest Franklin Bozman (1895- 1968)
Bozman was elected to the Alpine Club in 1933, having started climbing in 1919. Educated at Whitgift and Trinity College, Cambridge, he won the M. C. in the First World War and it was not until after the close of hostilities that he joined the publishing firm of J. M. Dent & Sons, with which he was to be connected until his retirement in 1966.
He became editorial director in 1926 and succeeded Ernest Rhys as Editor of Everyman's Encyclopaedia. He particularly developed the reference books and children's illustrated classics in Dent's works.
From 1919 onwards he made a considerable number of hard rock climbs in England and Wales, with R. Todhunter; the latter is best remembered as being Winthrop Young's companion in 1911 on the first complete ascent of the Mer de Glace face of the Grepon. (See Young's notice of Todhunter in A.J. 38. 295.)
Bozman was climbing with Todhunter in 1926 when the latter was killed in the Alps when his threaded rope broke. In 1927 and 1928 Bozman contented himself with walks in the Auvergne and the Vosges, but in 1929 he returned to the Alps and continued climbing there for some years, as well as visiting Corsica (in 1931).
Bozman was a very quiet and retiring man and was seldom seen at _ the Alpine Club. He was responsible for Dent's publication of several mountaineering works of interest, in particular Graham Brown's Brenva (1944). Another success was W. H. Murray's The Story of Everest (I953), Murray being one of the principal mountaineering authors for Dents, who had earlier published his notable works, Mountaineering in Scotland, Undiscovered Scotland and The Scottish Himalayan Expedition. The short-lived Alpine Annual was also brought out by Dents in Bozman's time a selection of articles from the A.J. of the preceding year.
T.S.B.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 73, 1968, Seite 295


Geboren am:
1895
Gestorben am:
1968