William Inglis Clark

He was born in Bombay in India on 5 June 1856[1] to Margaret Grace Inglis and Reverend Thomas Grieve Clark,[2] minister of the Scots Church.

His mother died of cholera in 1856 at which point he returned to Britain with his older brother, Thomas S Inglis Clark.

His proposers were Alexander Crum Brown, Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Cargill Gilston Knott.

In one early climb on Ben Nevis he met fellow mountaineers, Prof Matthew Forster Heddle and the artist Colin Philp.

In 1902 he is credited with the second direct ascent of Crowberry Ridge in the Highlands, called "the hardest rock climb in Scotland".

His wife Jane Inglis Clark (née Shannon) was also a competent climber and the first President of the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club.