A. W. Andrews

Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 to 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player. The son of a clergyman and amateur geologist and a writer, he grew up at Teffont Evias in Wiltshire, trained as a geographer and taught geography and history in Southwark. As a climber he is remembered for co-writing the first rock-climbing guidebook, The Climbs on Lliwedd, with J. M. A. Thomson in 1909, and as the father of Cornish sea-cliff climbing, beginning with the Bosigran Ridge Climb in 1902; he later produced the first official Climbers' Club Cornish guide with E. C. Pyatt in 1950. In tennis he once reached the semi-finals of the men's singles at Wimbledon, and in badminton he was a regular at the All England Open Championships from 1905 to 1923.