Roberts Ernest Edward

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Biografie:
Ernest Edward Roberts (1873- 1960).
E. E. Roberts, one of the best-known members of the Yorkshire Ramblers Club and a member of the A.C. from 1908 to 1934, died on June 21, 1960. Mr. F. H. Slings by writes of him:
Born in Salford, Roberts was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At Oxford he won both the Junior and Senior University Prizes for Mathematics, as did his younger brother, the late W. M. Roberts, also for many years a member of the A. C. After some teaching at Lampeter, Roberts joined the Board of Education, serving chiefly in the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire, as one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools; during the First World War he was lent to the War Office; he retired from the Board's service in 1933·
Roberts was attracted to the hills early in life through walking in the Lake District. He went first to the Alps in 1903 with his brother and began climbing with guides, but soon became a skilled guideless climber. In 1910 in the Dauphine Roberts and J. M. Davidson made the first ascent of the season of the Meije, with a novice, Colin Crawford, then making his first visit to the Alps. Up to the First War, and from 1920 onwards, Roberts went regularly to the Alps, almost to the outbreak of the Second War; there must have been few regions of the Alps that he did not know.
He also climbed many times in Scotland and J. H. B. Bell pays high tribute to him as a safe mountaineer (A Progress in Mountaineering, pp. 151-154). Frank Smythe has likewise expressed his gratitude to Roberts ''whose wise counsel and help served to place the feet of a reckless youngster into the path of true mountain virtue and righteousness" (Climbs and Ski Runs, p. 10); it was Roberts who introduced Smythe to Almscliff, a gritstone crag near Leeds, and not long after the two climbed together in the Dolomites. Besides making the ascent of most of the major peaks in the Alps, Roberts also visited Norway (where bad weather frustrated him) and Corsica.
Roberts wrote little for the Alpine Journal, but many articles, chiefly on caves and pot-holes, for the Yorkshire Ramblers' Journal of which he was Editor from 1920 to 1948. He joined the Y.R.C. in 1908, was Vice-President from 1919 to 1922, and President from 1923 to 1925; he became a Life Member in 1938 and was made an Honorary Member in 1949· He was always an outstanding figure in that Club and an absolute authority on the mountains and pot-holes of the British Isles.
He was a man of many interests and wide reading; he will be sadly missed by his numerous friends. In the A.C. we have particular reason for remembering him with gratitude, for he presented to the Club the manuscript of Leslie Stephen's Sunset from Mont Blanc.'
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 65, 1960, Seite 227-228


Geboren am:
1873
Gestorben am:
21.06.1960