Herbert Hartley

Herbert Kent Hartley (1908–1986) was an industrial chemist who pioneered the use of polyurethane in the UK, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Plastics and Rubber Institute.

[2] He was a keen climber and helped to organise the sport in the UK, founding the Manchester University Mountaineering Club, serving as the secretary of the Mountain Rescue Committee and president of the Rucksack Club.

Fellow climber, Frank Solari, praised Hartley in his obituary for Alpine Journal,[2]His personal qualities were of the highest.

On rock he was determined with an elegant, almost dainty, technique which served him well on the gritstone climbs that he pioneered.

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