| 词条 | Ian McNaught-Davis |
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| name = Ian McNaught-Davis | image = Ian McNaught-Davis 2009.jpg | alt = | caption = McNaught-Davis at 2009 Climbers' Club Welsh Dinner[1] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1929|8|30}} | birth_place = Wakefield | death_date = {{dda|df=y|2014|2|10|1929|8|30}} | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = Mac[2] | known_for = Mountaineering, climbing, BBC Computer Literacy Project | occupation = }} Ian McNaught-Davis (30 August 1929 – 10 February 2014)[3][4] was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare Inc. Early life and careerThe son of Stanley McNaught-Davis, an ex RAF pilot, he was educated at Rothwell Grammar School in Lofthouse, West Yorkshire (originally built in Rothwell, West Yorkshire), followed by national service in the RAF where his poor eyesight thwarted his ambitions to become a pilot. He achieved a first in Mathematics at the University of Manchester, where he also became an active mountaineer.[5] After university he had a variety of jobs including : digging ice tunnels for glaciologists on Monte Rosa in Switzerland; fixing roofs and teaching. Eventually he settled as a geophysicist for British Petroleum (BP), specialising in Africa.[5] MountaineeringMcNaught-Davis was a keen climber, hill walker and hiker. In 1956 he was one of the first to climb the "unclimbable" Muztagh Tower in the Karakoram range in Baltistan. He became honorary librarian of the Climbers' Club in 1961.[5] In the 1960s, he was a climbing partner of Joe Brown both in the UK and in the greater ranges. He took part with Brown in the televised climb of the Old Man of Hoy. He also took part in a climb of the Eiffel Tower, which was televised on the ABC network's Wide World of Sports.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} McNaught-Davis made his television debut in 1965 as one of the presenters of a BBC TV mountaineering programme Men Against the Matterhorn, with David Dimbleby and Christopher Brasher.[6] Computing and TV presentationIn the 1970s, he changed career becoming active in information technology, and joined Comshare Inc, where he remained until retirement in 1995. Comshare specialised in software development and resale of redundant operational time on mainframe computer systems. He rose to become chief executive of the European division and managing director of the British subsidiary.[5] Between 1975 and 1978, he presented the BBC series It's Patently Obvious, a game show in which two panels of celebrities tried to guess the purpose of unfamiliar inventions.[7] He presented another BBC series The Computer Programme,[8] Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s.[9] In 2008 he was a speaker (along with Dave Allen and George Auckland) at an event entitled The BBC Micro and its legacy hosted by the Computer Conservation Society.[10] HonoursMcNaught-Davis was the first non-Swiss holder of the post president of the UIAA (International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation) between the years of 1995[11][12][13] and 2004.[14] In 2012 he was a patron of the British Mountaineering Council.[15] Private lifeHe married twice, having two sons, John and Simon, from his first marriage, and a daughter, Elvira Hurrell, from his second marriage to Loreto Herman.[9] References1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/11/29/alpine-club-dinner/ | title=29 Alpine Club Dinner & BBC Micros? | publisher=Sterling Adventures 20091129 | work=Sterling Adventures website | date=29 November 2009 | accessdate=12 February 2014 | author=Pete}} 2. ^{{cite journal | title=Once In A Blue Moon | author=Curran, Jim | journal=Alpine Journal | year=1998 | volume=103}} 3. ^{{cite web|author=|url=https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-patron-uiaa-president-ian-mcnaught-davis-dies|title=BMC Patron Ian McNaught-Davis (1929 - 2014)|publisher=Thebmc.co.uk|date=|accessdate=2014-02-20|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222003529/https://www.thebmc.co.uk/bmc-patron-uiaa-president-ian-mcnaught-davis-dies|archivedate=2014-02-22|df=}} 4. ^{{cite news | url=http://theuiaa.org/news-76-BMC-Patron-and-former-UIAA-President-Ian-McNaught-Davis-dies.html | title=BMC Patron and former UIAA President Ian McNaught-Davis dies | work=International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation website | date=10 February 2014 | accessdate=12 February 2014 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222064932/http://theuiaa.org/news-76-BMC-Patron-and-former-UIAA-President-Ian-McNaught-Davis-dies.html | archivedate=22 February 2014 | df= }} 5. ^{{cite journal | url=http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1961%20Journal_nc.pdf | title=Officers of the Club | journal=Climbers' Club Journal | year=1961 | volume=13 | issue=86 | page=268 | publisher=Climbers' Club}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Men against the Matterhorn (1965)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7431b3f3|website=British Film Institute|accessdate=29 December 2017}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=It's Patently Obvious (Pilot) (1975)|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b86424464|website=British Film Institute|accessdate=29 December 2017}} 8. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=1781 | title=25th anniversary of BBC Micro TV series | work=Drobe | date=January 13, 2007 | accessdate=March 23, 2012}} 9. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|author=Ed Douglas |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/18/ian-mcnaught-davis |title=Ian McNaught-Davis obituary | World news |publisher=The Guardian |date= |accessdate=2014-02-20}} 10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/past-events.htm | title=Past Events | publisher=Computer Conservation Society | accessdate=March 23, 2012 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113013432/http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/past-events.htm | archivedate=January 13, 2012 | df= }} 11. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/mountaineers-defend-risks-in-the-highlands-mountaineers-fight-to-retain-risks-in-sport-1523602.html | title=Mountaineers defend risks in the Highlands Mountaineers fight to retain risks in sport | work=The Independent | date=December 2, 1995 | accessdate=March 23, 2012 | author=Goodwin, Stephen}} 12. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/searching-for-a-fall-guy-in-a-question-of-sport-1.469878 | title=Searching for a fall guy in a question of sport | work=The Herald | date=January 24, 1996 | accessdate=March 23, 2012 | author=Vaughan, Margaret}} 13. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dumbing-down-the-mountain-1288584.html | title=Dumbing down the mountain | work=The Independent | date=December 13, 1997 | accessdate=March 23, 2012 | author=Goodwin, Stephen}} 14. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/blackshaw-to-head-uiaa-er-maybe-not-3-apr-2006/ | title=Blackshaw to head UIAA – er, maybe not… (3 Apr 2006) | publisher=Mountain Clients | date=June 2, 2008 | accessdate=March 23, 2012 | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://archive.is/20121224033202/http://www.mountain-clients.org.uk/2008/06/blackshaw-to-head-uiaa-er-maybe-not-3-apr-2006/ | archivedate=December 24, 2012 | df= }} 15. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.thebmc.co.uk/modules/article.aspx?id=5414 | title=BMC Patrons | publisher=British Mountaineering Council | accessdate=March 23, 2012}}
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