Graham Reginald

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Biografie:
Reginald Graham (1866-1953)
Reginald Graham died on October 8, 1953, at the age of 87, after many years of suffering bravely borne.
He was educated at King's College School and after leaving school he joined the staff of the Westminster Bank in St. James's Square where he worked in the Securities Department until 1928 when he resigned owing to ill-health.
He was a very keen mountaineer. He climbed in the 'Alps regularly from 1901 to 1914 and again from 1919 to 1930, when he became crippled with rheumatoid arthritis. He did most of his climbing in the main centres, but after the first World War he visited the Tatra and the Drakensberg. He joined the Alpine Club in 1915 and served on the Committee from 1926 to 1929. His proposer was the late F. W. Hill, who was the sole survivor of the O. G. Jones disaster on the Dent Blanche.
For the last twenty years of his life he was a hopeless cripple and was confined to an invalid chair. It was a cruel fate for one who had always led such an active life, but his fortitude and endurance even up to the end were truly remarkable. In spite of this he continued his subscription right up to the end; and less than nine months before his death, although he knew that he could never set foot in the Club again, he paid the additional subscription which the Club were asking for, because he loved the Club and all that it stands for. It was a fine gesture and comes as a breath of fresh air in times like these when so many people will only join a Club for what they can get out of it .
He was a very fine character and he will be sadly missed by all who knew him. We desire to tender to his sister, who survives him, our deepest sympathy in her great loss.
M. N. Clarke
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 59. Nr. 288, 1954, Seite 333-334


Geboren am:
1866
Gestorben am:
08.10.1953