Greg Robert Lionel

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Biografie:
Robert Lionel Greg (1892 – 1965)
Robert Greg died on March 28, 1965, after a wearisome illness lasting some months. He was, perhaps, not very well known to the majority of the members of the Club, as he was rarely able to attend meetings owing to his residence in Cheshire. It was for this reason that he did not join the Club until 1954, despite the fact that he already had been climbing in the Alps for many years.
Robert was, however, well-known and very highly regarded by the members of A.B.M.S.A.C. of which Association he was Vice-President during the years 1954-56. He was a very good man at meets, being always ready to promote the general good by leading people on climbs and expeditions, often at the expense of his personal ambitions, and one has recollections of many happy days of climbing, both here and abroad, in association with him.
Greg was very proud of the fact that he was taken on to his first glacier at the age of eleven years; and this long mountaineering life made him somewhat of a traditionalist in that, to the very end, he insisted on doing some of the things which were routine in earlier days.
In his younger days Greg was a very successful cricketer and had a fund of stories on this subject. In his later years, after the marriage of his daughter, Greg devoted more and more of his time to Freemasonry, whilst being looked after by a faithful married couple in his home in Altrincham.
Robert Greg was a good friend and companion and will be sadly missed from his place in climbing circles.
G. Starkey
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 70, 1965, Seite 367-368


Geboren am:
1892
Gestorben am:
28.03.1965