Jack Longland

Sir John Laurence Longland, known as Jack Longland, was a British educator, mountain climber and broadcaster, born on 26 June 1905 and died on 29 November 1993. As a young man he was prominent among British rock climbers and took a distinguished part in the 1933 British Mount Everest expedition. Later in life he was active in the affairs of the British Mountaineering Council. Outside climbing he became a don at Durham University in the 1930s, worked for the welfare of unemployed people and retired as an educational administrator in 1970. He was also a familiar voice on BBC Radio, chairing the panel game My Word for twenty years from 1957.