Jeremy Ayrton (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Jeremy Ayrton

9:58am Wednesday 25th February 2009

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JEREMY Lloyd Ayrton, a loving father and husband and experienced climber, died on Bowfell this month (February 4), aged 60.

Born in 1949, in Wembley, Mr Ayrton's father worked on the railways, a job which took the family across the country to London, Accrington and Bletchley.

They later moved to Carlisle - where Mr Ayrton developed his love of climbing - and then to Hallbankgate, in Cumbria, and on to Bath, where he sailed in JOG races on the River Solent and was a member of the St.John’s festival choir for many years, where he sang polyphony.

In his early years, Mr Ayrton worked in industrial design and graphics but later re-trained as a naval architect for the Ministry of Defence.

He continued to work for the MOD, working on the database used for ordering food for the Armed Forces.

Mr Ayrton married Elizabeth, a Kendal veterinary surgeon, in 1989 and the couple settled with their two children, Fionnuala and Joshua on Lake Road in Windermere.

Mr Ayrton played classical guitar and had a great love of books and reading. But his main interest lay in the Lake District fells where he had climbed and walked for 46 years, at first as a child on Borrowdale and later in South Lakeland.

“Jeremy and I had a very happy 20 year marriage and he was a very supportive husband,” said Mrs Ayrton. “He especially loved walking in the Lake District and Scotland and particularly loved the Cuillin, on Skye.”

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