John Fothergill Adam Sedgwick Dr Arthur Wakefield Wilfred Agar E Max Nicholson ENVIRONMENTALISTS & c.1730-40’s c1800 John Metcalfe Charles Palmer Autumn 1888 Sedgwick House 1890-94 Lupton 1897-1900 Hart House 1919-1922 Doctor and botanist. A collector of rare plants who created Appointed Woodwardian Professor 1850-1854 Sedgwick 1886-1892 Formation of the Reached the North Col of Mount Everest as a King’s College, Cambridge, Scholar, A distinguished conservationist. Foundation member and first a large botanical garden in Upton, near Stratford. He was of Geology at Trinity College 1818. Ornithologist and businessman. Author of Wildlife in the Sedgwick Society to member of General Charles Bruce’s 1922 expedition. First Class, Natural Science Tripos, Vice-Chairman of Oxford University Exploration Club, Vice-President EXPLORERS TIMELINE the patron of Sydney Parkinson, the South Sea voyager, President of the Geology Society Author of several articles in Woods and Streams and support learning about Provided medical care to his comrades who included Part I and II, Fellow of King’s College, of Oxford Ornithological Society and one of the founding members of Dobson ozone spectrophotometer and of William Bartram, the American botanist in his and co-founder of the Cambridge Dresser’s A History of the Birds The White Stone. Natural History at George Mallory. Awarded Olympic medal for 1907. Went on to be Senior Professor the World Wildlife Fund. Wrote Birds in England, How birds Live and Sedbergh School. For countless generations Sedbergh students have enjoyed some of the southern travels of 1773–1776. Fellow of the Royal Society. Philosophical Society. of Europe. mountaineering at the 1924 Winter Olympics. of Zoology at Melbourne University. other publications and Encyclopaedias. most stunning environments in the country, and have been able to roam the fells and explore whatever took their fancy. Their stamina has been challenged as well as their sense of responsibility. Without necessarily Christopher Alderson Edward Eyre Charles Trotter October 1887 James Waddingham James Donald Arthur Aikman Major George Sherriff OBE The School Museum Opened Colin G Trapnell OBE c.1750 1828-1830 Evans 1878-1881 Sedgwick 1896-1902 Evans House 1897-1899 Gordon Dobson CBE Hart House 1904-1907 Evans House 1912-16 having been put to them, the environment has been a classroom with an Hart House 1920-1925 A devoted gardener he was Led explorations of Australia Surveyed land in Canada, ‘for the encouragement of the Assistant Conservator of the Conservator of forests Sedgwick House 1903-07 On the Board of Agriculture for Scottish explorer and plant collector. influence on the development of that responsibility for the environment From Sedbergh, Colin Trapnell went to Trinity employed to lay out the including an overland New Zealand and Australia. study of Natural History, Indian Forest Service 1906 – in India. A physicist and meteorologist who Scotland during the 1920s when crop Travelled primarily to the Nepal region College Oxford. A keen botanist and scientist from and all that the countryside stands for. The environment and expeditions grounds at Kew for Queen exploration of the Northern Archaeology, &c.’ according 1910. Returned to the UK to did important work on the ozone. prices plummeted after WW1 and on botanical missions, recording many an early age, he co-founded the Oxford University with particular projects are an integral part of their education and their Charlotte and was part of the continent through to the Sedberghian Magazine. service in the R.F.A. Awarded He built the first Dobson ozone spectrophotometers and 40% of Scottish land is believed to significant new species and sending Exploration Club in 1927 and organised its first appointed Rector of areas that had never been M.C in 1916. studied the results over many years. The Dobson unit, a have changed hands. He campaigned samples to Kew Gardens. Made several personal development. Peter Fuchs (Powell 53-59) Thomas Carter expedition to Greenland in 1928. As ecologist for Eckington, a royal position. visited by non-indiginous unit of measurement of vertically integrated atmospheric for several acts of parliament which expeditions into the Himalayan regions Evans House 1878-80 the Colonial Office, he was posted to Northern humans. Harry Smith ozone density, is named after him. He was elected a Fellow gave price support and grants to of Tibet and Bhutan, collecting Had published papers on British birds, Rhodesia (now Zambia) in 1931. Over 10 years he Pre-1900 1950-60 1990-2000 1889-1892 of the Royal and was president of the Royal farmers, thus changing to the types thousands of specimens, many of which and made observations in Iceland, before mapped the soil, vegetation and agriculture of the Head Surveyor of the Meteorological Society from 1947- 49. of crops grown on Scottish were new to science are held in the 1900-20 1960-70 2000-2010 travelling to Western Australia. He arrived Atlas Assurance Co. Ltd, agricultural land and the visual Natural History Museum. In 1948 was whole country – the first survey of its kind. In 1994 at Carnarvon to work at Boolathanna Manchester appearance of Scottish countryside. awarded the Royal Horticultural he set up the Trapnell Fund for Environmental Field 1920-30 1970-80 2010- present Station, later acquiring a pastoral lease Society’s Victoria Medal of Honour. Research in Africa at the University of Oxford. around Point Cloates. Illness reportedly Alastair Scott required his family to return to England in 1930-50 1980-90 Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO 1914, but he returned to Australia for Sedgwick House 1967-72 Spent 5 years hitchhiking round the world, Lupton House 1921-1926 1985 several expeditions, the last in 1928. for the most part wearing a kilt, visiting 60 An explorer who joined the British Arctic Bruce Loch was enclosed by a perimeter The Very Reverend Ingram Cleasby countries on 6 continents. Cycled 5000 Air Route Expedition in 1930 and, in fence to exclude livestock and the marshy 1950s Lupton House 1934-1938 miles behind the Iron Curtain, made a 1932 the Greenland Expedition followed floor of the basin excavated by mechanical 1981 1976 1971 Bruce Loch Nature Reserve is a three acre Primarily a high-ranking member of the winter sled dog traverse of Alaska, rowed a Nigel Hawkes CBE by an expedition to Lapland in 1932 and diggers. During the winter 1985/86, Trans Sahara Expedition Morocco Expedition Peru Expedition site occupying a natural depression in a Clergy and former Dean of Chester, Highland birlinn through the Hebrides, Powell House 1957-1962 one to the Himalayas in 1936. He went on Sedbergh School pupils and staff cleared A group of Sedbergh staff and pupils A party from school travelled over The group was based in glacial moraine. It was named ‘Bruce Ingram Cleasby had a lifelong interest in made solo circumnavigations of Ireland Attended St Catherine’s College Oxford, to teach at Gordonstoun school where other areas by hand and by spring the lake set off with an ex Nato Mercedes land and sea in Land Rover and Urubamba Valley to study Loch’ in tribute to former Headmaster of ornithology. He wrote several publications and the Faroes. Author of many travel where he read Metallurgy. He later Prince Philip was one of his pupils. was complete and water levels were Unimog Field Ambulance and a 1979 Trailer to the Valley of Ait Bou the Incas and native people Sedbergh School J. H. Bruce Lockhart including, Birds and boys books. Currently cycling from Norway’s worked on national newspapers for more stabilised. Aquatic plants and shoreline V8 Land Rover with the intention of Guemmez in the High Atlas and climb in the Cordillera who led the school 1937-54. The name at Sedbergh and the North Cape to Cape Town. than 35 years, writing about science, woodlands were introduced. The area following the Tanezrouft route through Mountains of Morocco. The Urubamba range. ‘Bruce Loch’ was established in the 1950s. Ornithological Society health, energy, the environment and continues to be actively managed by the some of the most desolate parts of the group carried out surveys for ‘A’ The area was used by Sedbergh School volume. international relations. School Conservation Society with support Sahara desert. Similar expeditions were Level Geography and made a film pupils for skating during much of the from the grounds staff. repeated in 1984 and 1988. about the Berbers. twentieth century. Hugh Symonds Mark Smith Robert Swan OBE Nick Van Gruisen Richard Gledhill Peter Fuchs Robin Davis Digby McLaren Staff member 1981-2010 Evans House 1974-79 Winder House 1970-74 Sedgwick House 1968-72 Winder House 1967-71 Robert Napier CBE, DL, FRCS (Hon) Powell House 1953-59 Winder House 1945-48 Evans House 1934-37 Hugh taught maths and for many years was in A wildlife film cameraman. His work First person to walk to the North and South poles. Has been a Spent five years in Botswana and South Africa Was head of climate change services at School House 1960-65 Followed in his father’s footsteps by Former Director of the Eco Green In 1948, he moved to Canada and joined the Geological charge of the running team, athletics and The includes The Hunt, Life Story, Africa, Frozen UN Environment Program Goodwill Ambassador, UNESCO in the 1970’s working as a professional Safari PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, leading their Robert was Chairman of the Met Office visiting Antarctica. He manages the Energy Centre who supply wood Survey of Canada. In 1967, he became the first Director of Wilson Run. As a runner he won The classic Planet and Planet Earth for the BBC Natural Goodwill Ambassador for Youth and Special Envoy to the Guide.