Struvé Kenneth Chetwood Price

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Biografie:
KENNETH CHETWOOD PRICE STRUVÉ (1876-1961).
Struvé resigned from the A. C. in 1959, after 36 years of membership. He was educated at Birkenhead School and at Vevey, later going up to St. John's College, Oxford, to read Geology and, incidentally, to row for his college. He was in the Egyptian Irrigation Service from 1899 to 1901 and in the latter year he joined the newly formed Sudan Political Service. In 1913, the year of his marriage, he was appointed Governor of the White Nile Province, and in 1919 Governor of the Upper Nile Province, remaining there until his retirement in 1926.
He was an omnivorous reader and also very fond of the theatre and opera, but his great love was for climbing, and he spent almost all his leaves at it and, on his retirement, he went to live at Geneva, later near Vevey, remaining there until the summer of 1939. He then came to England and lived near Guildford for the remainder of his life, dying on February 5, 1961. He soon explored on foot the whole district round Guildford, and this was to stand him in good stead when in the Home Guard.
He was proposed for the Alpine Club in 1923 by F. P. M. Schiller, with F. N. Schiller his seconder. His first season in the AIps had been in r8gr, and his last was in 1948, though he went abroad, to Norway, in 1949 and I95o, as well as climbing during these last years in Scotland and Ireland, 1953 being his last recorded season. He kept meticulous notes of his expeditions, which totalled 475 peaks and passes; in Switzerland, the Oberland and the Valais would appear to have been his favourite areas, but he had a wide experience of the Alps in all regions.
His climbing companions included E. C. Oppenheim (in early days), R. W. Workman and, most constant of all, Anthony Robinson, who wrote of their climbs in his book Alpine Roundabout. Struve contributed to the A.J. the obituary notices of Workman and Robinson, and, to volume 58, an article on “Hill-roaming in Norway”. Much of his climbing was done guideless and he was remarkably active almost to the end. He leaves a wife and son, the latter an active mountaineer, and we express to them our regrets at the passing of our former member.
T. S. B.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 66, 1961, Seite 378


Geboren am:
1876
Gestorben am:
1961