William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge

William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (born Aug. 28, 1850, New York City—died May 8, 1926, Grindelwald, Switz.) was an American-born British historian and mountaineer who, in the course of about 1,750 ascents, made one of the first systematic explorations of the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps. A graduate of Oxford University, where he taught for some years, he was also ordained a priest in the Church of England (1883). In his youth he was introduced to...