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词条 R. L. Holdsworth
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Climbing highlights

  4. Cricket career

  5. References

  6. External links

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| honorific_suffix =
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| alma mater = Magdalen College, Oxford
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|2|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mysore, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1976|6|20|1899|2|25|df=y}}
| death_place = Somerset, England
| other_names = Holdie
| known_for = Schoolmaster at Harrow School, England
Deputy Headmaster at The Doon School, India
Principal of Islamia College University
| occupation = Scholar, schoolmaster, cricketer, mountaineer
}}Romilly Lisle Holdsworth, commonly known as R. L. Holdsworth, (25 February 1899 – 20 June 1976) was an English scholar, academic, educationalist, cricketer and a distinguished Himalayan mountaineer. He was a member of the first expedition to Kamet in 1931, which included other stalwarts such as Eric Shipton and Frank Smythe.[1]

Holdsworth, along with Shipton and Smythe, are credited with the discovery of the Valley of Flowers, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, during their return from Kamet.[1][2]

Early life

Holdsworth was educated at Repton School, where he was a pupil of Victor Gollancz, later a famous publisher. He attended Repton under the headmastership of William Temple, the future Archbishop of Canterbury.[3]

He later attended the University of Oxford, where he read Literae Humaniores or Classics at Magdalen College.[3] At Oxford he earned a Triple Blue for cricket, football and boxing.[4]

He was a first-class batsman and played cricket for Sussex, Warwickshire and Marylebone Cricket Club.[5][6][7][8]

Holdsworth briefly served in the First World War as a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1918 (he served until 1919), after leaving Repton.[9]

Career

Holdsworth held various distinguished positions in his lifetime. In 1922, he joined Harrow School as a schoolmaster. He was made the master-in-charge of cricket and played for Sussex County Cricket Club. In order to encourage ski mountaineering at Harrow, he established a club called the Marmots.[10]

After leaving Harrow in 1933, he took over as principal of Islamia College in Peshawar, Pakistan (at the time in British India), in which position he served for seven years until 1940, when he joined The Doon School in Dehradun.[11]

At Doon, he met his old colleague J. A. K. Martyn, whom he had known since his days at Harrow. Martyn was the second headmaster of Doon School.[12]

He later retired in Somerset, England.

Climbing highlights

  • 1924 – Holdsworth was invited by George Mallory to join him on the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition but he was so adamant on taking his skis along that the invitation was withdrawn. Holdsworth later remarked that his "intransigence saved my life" because it was on this expedition that Mallory disappeared along with Irvine.[11]
  • 1931 – Holdsworth was a member of the first expedition to climb Kamet (7,756 m) in 1931, at the time the highest peak yet climbed.[13][14] During the Kamet expedition Holdsworth, Shipton and Smythe discovered what they called the Valley of Flowers[15] in the Himalaya, now in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Holdsworth also holds the record of smoking a pipe at the summit of Mt. Kamet.[16]

Cricket career

Holdsworth was active in first-class cricket from 1919 to 1942. He played for Warwickshire and Sussex. He appeared in 109 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who scored 4,716 runs with a highest score of 202 among eight centuries.[17]

References

Notes
1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.zipworld.com.au/~lnbdds/home/smythefrank.htm |title=Colonel Frank Smythe – Francis Sydney Smythe, 1900–1949 |work=Voyages in Time ~ The Family Vault |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/early-years-of-indian-mountaineering/ |title=Early Years of Indian Mountaineering |author=Nalni D. Jayal |year=2006 |work=Himalayan Club |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/obituary/ |title=OBITUARY – KENNETH MASON|work=Himalayan Club |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/travel/article55820.ece |work=The Hindu : Life & Style |title=VISHRANTI: an ode to rest |date=27 November 2009 |author=Shalini Shah |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Warwickshire/Players/13/13717/f_Bowling_by_Team.html |work=Cricket Archive |title=First-class Bowling For Each Team by Romilly Holdsworth |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Warwickshire/Players/13/13717/f_Batting_by_Opponent.html |title=First-class Batting and Fielding Against Each Opponent by Romilly Holdsworth |work=Cricket Archive |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://stats.cricketworld.com/Players/13/13717/County_Championship_Matches.html |work=Cricket World Statistics |accessdate=2012-06-20 |title=County Championship Matches played by Romilly Holdsworth (62)}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13717/f_Batting_by_Opponent.html |work=CricketArchive |title= FIRST-CLASS BATTING AND FIELDING AGAINST EACH OPPONENT BY ROMILLY HOLDSWORTH|accessdate=2012-06-20}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.harrowassociation.com/netcommunity/document.doc?id=195 |title=Assistant Masters |author=Dale Vargas |year=2010|publisher=Harrow Association |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.himalayanclub.org/journal/in-memoriam-14/ |title=IN MEMORIAM – ANDRE ROCH (1906–2002) |year=2003 |publisher= Himalayan Club |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
11. ^1 {{cite book |last=Shaw|first=Michael|title=In Search of Time Wasted: Peregrinations from Seil Island |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7U0Gc1eJ1BEC&pg=PA22 |accessdate=20 June 2012|date=1 November 2008|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1-4343-4443-4|page=22}}
12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.myhimalayanadventure.com/trek-details-harkidoon-ruinsara-tal--kalanag-base-camp.html |title=Trek to Harkidoon- Ruinsaratal- Kalanag Base camp |work=My Himalayan Adventure |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
13. ^{{cite book | title=Across Peaks and Passes in Garhwal Himalaya | publisher=Indus Publishing Company | author=Kapadia, Harish | year=1999 | isbn=978-81-7387-097-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KptmxrqhKl4C&pg=PA40&dq=1931+highest+peak+kamet#v=onepage&q=1931%20highest%20peak%20kamet&f=false | page=40}}
14. ^Narinder Kumar and Kapil Malhotra, Kamet East, Kamet West: The Kumaoni Expedition, New Delhi: Vision, 1987, {{ISBN|978-81-7094-003-6}}, [https://books.google.com/books?ei=qx7iT9T8EKeQ2QW0zZGcCw&id=V5lWAAAAMAAJ&dq=Kamet+highest+1931&q=It+was+first+climbed+by+Frank+Smvthe%27s+team+in+1931%2C+the+highest+mountain+ever+climbed+till+then.#search_anchor p. 12].
15. ^{{cite book |author=F. S. Smythe|year=1949|title=The Valley of Flowers|publisher=W.W. Norton |isbn=81-85019-98-3}}
16. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1990-91_files/AJ%201990%20295-319%20In%20Memoriam.pdf |title=In Memoriam |work=The Alpine Journal |page=307 |accessdate=2012-06-20}}
17. ^[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/13/13717/13717.html Romilly Holdsworth at CricketArchive]
Bibliography
  • F. S. Smythe, [https://archive.org/details/KametConquered Kamet Conquered] (1932) Gollanz, London
  • F. S. Smythe, An Alpine Journey (1934) Hodder, London
  • F. S. Smythe, The Spirit of the Hills (1935) Hodder, London
  • F. S. Smythe, [https://archive.org/details/ValleyOfFlowers The Valley of the Flowers] (1938) Hodder, London

External links

  • {{cricinfo|ref=england/content/player/14390.html}}
  • {{cricketarchive|ref=Archive/Players/13/13717/13717.html}}
  • First-Class matches played by R. L. Holdsworth
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