A. Harry Griffin

Arthur Harry Griffin MBE was a British journalist and mountaineer. He was born in Liverpool and raised in Barrow-in-Furness .
His career as a newspaper reporter began with the Barrow Guardian, then the Lancashire Evening Post before joining the Daily Mail in Manchester in 1937.
At the start of World War 2 he joined the British army, working in intelligence in India and Burma. Attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he became a staff officer to Lord Mountbatten.
He resumed working for the Daily Mail after demob, then returned to the Lancashire Evening Postas northern news editor, in Kendal.
Griffin is particularly remembered for his evocative recording, in his writing, of rock-climbing in the Lake District in the inter-war years, especially a group called 'The Coniston Tigers' which he founded; for his long-running 'Lakeland Diary' column in The Guardian ; and for having inspired, via these columns, and an article in the Lancashire Evening Post, the rebirth of interest in the Bob Graham Round.
Fuller details of his life, including his wartime service as an intelligence officer, may be found in the Guardian obituary. He was friends with Alfred Wainwright but somewhat disapproved of the damage to the fells that the popularity of Wainwright's guides could cause.