John Baird Tyson, OBE, MC, (7 April 1928, in Partick – 10 March 2014) was a British school teacher who mapped previously unexplored areas of the Himalayas.
[1] Tyson's father was deputy headmaster at St Paul's School in London, where he was brought up.
In 1952, he led the first Oxford University Scientific Expedition to the Himalayas - the start of a lifetime's attachment to that region.
In 1983, he returned to Kathmandu and served as the Headmaster of the British-administered Budhanilkantha School, holding the position until 1988.
In 1963 the Royal Geographical Society recognised Tyson's work in the Kanjiroba Himal with the Ness Award.