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Born, 1911; educated at Radley College and then at Magdalen College, Oxford; arranged the 1932 Oxford expedition to Sarawak, serving as its surveyor; first known ascent of Borneo's Mount Mulu; led the Oxford expedition to Ellesmere Island, 1934-1935; lectured in Europe and America on his travels; joined the BBC as a talks producer in Ulster; RAF's Coastal Command as an intelligence officer and anti-U-boat planner, 1940; Labour MP, 1946-1955; director, 1955-1964 and 1973-1982 and deputy chairman, 1975-82, of the John Lewis Partnership; life peer, 1958; Minister for the RAF, 1964; sworn of the Privy Council in 1966 and became Deputy Leader of the House of Lords in 1967; leader of the House of Lords, Paymaster-General (taking over security from Lord Wigg), and Minister in Charge of the Civil Service, 1968; Leader of the Opposition in the Lords, 1970-1974; a director of Rio Tinto Zinc (deputy chairman, 1975-1982); chairman of the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) (Honorary Membership); Cuthbert Peek Award; RGS President 1971-1974; Special Gold Medal 1990; died, 1994.