Lipscomb Godfrey

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Biografie:
Godfrey Lipscomb (1863-1953)
Godfrey Lipscomb was born April 21, 1863 and died in his ninety-first year. He was educated at Charterhouse and was by profession a land agent, being one of the founder-members of the Land Agents' Society, of which he was President in 1916-17.
He had been intimately associated with Bath and the Western Counties for very many years and on his retirement from business, as Agent to the Margam Estate in South Wales, he settled at Batheaston, where he died on July 2 last. He had been connected with the organization of the Church of Wales, both before and after disestablishment, and was a member of the governing body till 1923. Subsequently, while living at Bath, he became a member of the finance committee and of the dilapidations board of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
He was elected to the Alpine Club in December 1898, having begun to climb relatively late in life. His first visit to the Alps consisted of a 5 -days' walking tour round Monte Rosa in 1892, and it was not until 1894 that he made his first real climb. He then visited the Alps for the next four years in succession; in 1897, with F. G. Leatham, Jean Maitre, and Pierre Maurys, making a new route up l'Eveque d' Arolla by the eastern face (A.J. 1960 ), and in 1898, with the same companions, making a variation on the Grand Combin (A.J. 19 p 247), in addition to traversing the Obergabelhorn from the Mountet to Zermatt, and climbing the Dent Blanche.
He does not appear to have visited the Alps again till 1902, when he was once more in the Arolla area, with Pierre Maurys as guide ; and then there is a long gap, till he returned to his old haunts in 1925 and renewed acquaintance with his favourite guide. 1934 was, apparently, his last year in the Alps.
If the early promise of his climbing career was not fulfilled, his interest in the Club never waned. One of the last letters received from him was in the autumn of 1952, giving his views on the proposals then afoot in relation to the future of Club premises. It is likely that Lipscomb was not widely known to present-day members of the Club, but we can ill afford the loss of any of that steadily shortening list of members who were elected during the last century. In Bath, Lipscomb will certainly be greatly missed by the many who knew him.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 59. Nr. 288, 1954, Seite 335-336


Geboren am:
21.04.1863
Gestorben am:
1953