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| Born | (1899-02-25)25 February 1899 Mysore, India |
| Died | 20 June 1976(1976-06-20) (aged 77) Somerset, England |
| Other names | Holdie |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Scholar,schoolmaster,cricketer,mountaineer |
| Known for | Schoolmaster atHarrow School, England Deputy Headmaster atThe Doon School, India Principal ofIslamia College University |
Romilly Lisle Holdsworth, commonly known asR. L. Holdsworth, (25 February 1899 – 20 June 1976) was an English scholar, academic,educationalist,cricketer and a distinguishedHimalayanmountaineer. He was a member of the first expedition toKamet in 1931, which included other stalwarts such asEric Shipton andFrank Smythe.[1] Holdsworth, along with Shipton and Smythe, are credited with the discovery of theValley of Flowers, now aUNESCO World Heritage Site, during their return from Kamet.[1][2]
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Holdsworth was educated atRepton School, where he was a pupil ofVictor Gollancz, later a famous publisher. He attended Repton under the headmastership ofWilliam Temple, the futureArchbishop of Canterbury.[3] He later attended theUniversity of Oxford, where he readLiterae Humaniores or Classics atMagdalen College.[3] At Oxford he earned aTriple Blue forcricket,football andboxing.[4] He was a first-class batsman and played cricket forSussex,Warwickshire andMarylebone Cricket Club.[5][6][7][8]
Holdsworth briefly served in theFirst World War as a lieutenant in theRifle Brigade in 1918 (he served until 1919), after leaving Repton.[9]
Holdsworth held various distinguished positions in his lifetime. In 1922, he joinedHarrow School as a schoolmaster. He was made the master-in-charge of cricket and played forSussex County Cricket Club. In order to encourageski mountaineering at Harrow, he established a club called the Marmots.[10] After leaving Harrow in 1933, he took over as principal ofIslamia College inPeshawar, Pakistan (at the time inBritish India), in which position he served for seven years until 1940, when he joinedThe Doon School inDehradun.[11] At Doon, he met his old colleagueJ. A. K. Martyn, whom he had known since his days at Harrow. Martyn was the second headmaster of Doon School.[12]
He later retired inSomerset, England.
Holdsworth was active infirst-class cricket from 1919 to 1942. He played forWarwickshire andSussex. He appeared in 109 first-class matches as a righthandedbatsman who scored 4,716runs with a highest score of 202 among eight centuries.[17]
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