Arthur Westlake Andrews
Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player. He was the son of clergyman and amateur geologist William Ryton Andrews and writer Marian Andrews. They lived in Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, from 1873 to 1892, and here Arthur spent his childhood climbing trees and walking on the hills.
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Arthur Westlake Andrews
![Porthmoina Cove. Known to climbers as Bosigran Cove. The island is Porthmoina Island [aka Bosigran Pinnacle] and the complex rib on the mainland is Bosigran Ridge [aka Commando Ridge], noted as a wartime training ground for commandos.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Porthmoina_Cove_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50202.jpg/640px-Porthmoina_Cove_-_geograph.org.uk_-_50202.jpg)
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- Name
- A.W.
- Born
- 12 December 1868
- Birthplace
- Hastings, England
- Died
- 22 November 1959
- Place of death
- Zennor, England
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- geographer · badminton player · tennis player · poet · mountaineer · athletics competitor
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Languages
- English
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Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player. He was the son of clergyman and amateur geologist William Ryton Andrews and writer Marian Andrews. They lived in Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, from 1873 to 1892, and here Arthur spent his childhood climbing trees and walking on the hills.
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Arthur Westlake Andrews (1868–1959) was a British and British athletics competitor, badminton player and geographer, among other activities. Born in Hastings, the athletics competitor died in Zennor. Arthur Westlake Andrews was a member of Royal Geographical Society.
Languages used include English. The athletics competitor received Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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He trained as a geographer (FRGS 1896), and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark. In 1913 he published "a text-book of geography", reprinted in 1922.
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• Name — A.W. Andrews • Fullname — Arthur Westlake Andrews • Born — 12 December 1868 • Birthplace — Hastings, England • Died — 22 November 1959 • Place of death — Zennor, England • Wimbledonresult — 3R (1909) • Wimbledondoublesresult — 3R (1909) • Illustration — Portmoina Cove with Commando Ridge on the mainland behind the island.
Climber
Climber
As a climber, his first contribution appears to have been, in 1899, the route now called 'Andrews' renne' on Storen, Norway. He is especially remembered for two later climbing contributions: for his co-authorship, with J. M. A. Thomson in 1909 of the first rock-climbing guide-book, to the cliffs of Lliwedd, in Snowdonia; and for being the 'father' of Cornish sea cliff climbing, beginning with an early ascent (1902) of the Bosigran Ridge Climb (aka Commando Ridge) followed by Ledge Climb (also Bosigran) in 1905. With E. C. Pyatt he later produced the first official (Climbers' Club) Cornish climbing guide, in 1950. He is also believed to have had a project to traverse all the British coastline, between the high and low water marks, aided where necessary by a rope, starting in Cornwall.
Tennis
Tennis
He once reached the semi- finals of the men’s singles at Wimbledon.
Badminton
Badminton
He was a regular competitor at the All England Open Badminton Championships first appearing at the 1905 All England Badminton Championships and last appearing at the 1923 All England Badminton Championships.
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Arthur Westlake Andrews is recorded as geographer, badminton player, tennis player, poet and mountaineer.
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1868
Arthur Westlake Andrews born at Hastings.
1959
Arthur Westlake Andrews died at Zennor.
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- 1.Wimbledon Results Archive
- 2.Andrews, Marian [née Hare; pseud. Christopher Hare] (1839–1929) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Rosemary Mitchell. https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.59077 Published online: 14 May 2020 https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59077 accessed 28 Jan 2025
- 3.Climbing and walking in south-east England. Pyatt, Edward C. 1970. David and Charles, Newton Abbot. Page 116.
- 4.O'Sullivan, Pete. West Penwith. Climbers Club. 1984. 0-901601-28-4.
- 5.Mitchell, Rosemary. Andrews, Marian [née Hare; pseud. Christopher Hare] (1839–1929), historian and novelist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2020. 978-0-19-861412-8.
- 6.Badminton Association Open Tournament. Field. 4 March 1905.
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