W. A. B. Coolidge
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William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (Template:IPAc-en; August 28, 1850 – May 8, 1926) was an American historian, theologian and mountaineer.
Early life and education
William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge was born in New York City in 1850 as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant, and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort, sister of James Carson Brevoort and Meta Brevoort. Coolidge studied history and law at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1870 at the age of twenty he was made a member of the Alpine Club (UK).
Career
In 1875, he became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. From 1880 to 1881 he was professor of British history at Saint David's College in Lampeter. In 1883, age 33, he became a priest of the Anglican church.
Coolidge became one of the great figures of the so-called silver age of alpinism, making first ascents of the few significant peaks in the Alps that had not been climbed during the golden age of alpinism. On many of these climbs he was accompanied by his aunt, Meta Brevoort, and a pet dog, Tschingel, given to him by one of his guides, Christian Almer.
First ascents in the Alps
- Piz Badile, 27 July 1867, with François Devouassoud and Henri Devouassoud[1]
- Ailefroide, 7 July 1870, with Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer
- Central peak of La Meije, 1870, with Meta Brevoort and three guides
- Unterbächhorn, 1872
- First winter ascent of the Jungfrau, January 1874, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- West summit of Les Droites, 16 July 1876, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- Pic Coolidge, July 1877 with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- Les Bans, 14 July 1878, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- Southern Peak of the Aiguilles d'Arves, 22 July 1878, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- Monte Matto, 14 July 1879, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
- Aiguille de Chambeyron, 1879, with Christian Almer.
- Scherbadung, 1886
- Chüebodenhorn, 1892
- Pic des Houerts, 18 July 1881 with Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer
Personal life and death
In 1885, at age 35 he moved to Grindelwald, Switzerland, where he died in 1926, age 76.
Selected publications
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- Climbers' guides: Adula Alps of the Lepontine Range (T. Fisher Unwin, 1893)
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- 1850 births
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- Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
- American Anglicans
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- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
- People educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey
- Writers from New York City
- American Christian theologians
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- Christians from New York (state)
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- People from Grindelwald