Fowler Thomas George William

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Biografie:
Thomas George William Fowler (1880-1967)
T. G. W. Fowler, who died on March 4, was born at Huntingdon, where his father was a solicitor. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. His earlier activities seem to have escaped notice, but he became an authority on Cornish serpentine (a coloured magnesium-containing rock) and he was a notable conchologist, his fine collection of British shells being purchased by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1965. These interests made him a well-known figure round the Cornish coast; his home was at Sennen, near Land's End.
He was elected to the Alpine Club in February, 1910, on the strength of three seasons' climbing (1906, '07 and '09). There is nothing in his list of climbs at that time to call for notice; his first wife (who died c. 1926) accompanied him on some of his expeditions, but it is not thought that he continued mountaineering after her death. He married again in I 937 and much of his work in conchology dates from then.
T. S. Blakeney.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 72, 1967, Seite 356


Geboren am:
1880
Gestorben am:
04.03.1967