Year of publication 1960 - Fell and Rock Climbing Club

72 IN MEMORIAMSunderland and Woking; retiring, due to ill-health, in 1946.The Journal is scarcely the place for full mention of his variedreligious activities, but it may be said that he had served as aDirector of the London Missionary Society and on theCouncils of the Congregational Union of England and Walesand of the Friends of Reunion (of the Churches). He was agodfather to the writer's son 'taking the vows in the spiritrather than in the letter' as he put it. No one could have hada better one.He did some glacier tours around the Chanrion-Arolla-Zermatt area in the 1900s and his companion then, Todd,(who, although he lived to be older than Bawtree, predeceasedhim a few years ago) was a great solace to him in his later years.Like many of 'the best people,' the Bawtrees honeymooned inthe Lake District and the writer first met him and his wife atWasdale Head in that wonderful snowy Easter of 1913. Heserved during the 1914-1918 War in the Y.M.C.A. in theSomme-Arras forward areas.His illness of 1946, when he was seventy-six, stopped hishill walking but he and his wife when visiting the writer inPatterdale were able to manage some side-valley walks. Inhis last housebound years, whilst still able to read, he achievedmuch happiness through teaching (free) English, and in somecases classical Greek, to young women coming to England towork and learn English.His long survival after his severe illness of 1946 was dueto the devoted care of his wife (who luckily had been a trainednurse), to his calm acceptance of the limitation to his activityand to thankfulness for his fitness up to the age of seventy-six.He leaves a widow and two daughters, the elder of whomhas worked for many years in Greece with the Save theChildren Organization.W. ALLSUP.R. J. PORTER, 1910-1959Robert J. Porter, B.Sc, Ph.D., will be remembered byolder members as a regular attender at Thornythwaite for theWhitsuntide Meet from 1910 to the late twenties. He waseducated at Hull Grammar School and remained there as amaster until his retirement in 1945. Porter did a little rockclimbing, but fell walking was his great love and for many