Alfred Wainwright MBE (1907 – 1991)
A fell walker from Blackburn in Lancashire who wrote the seven 'Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells', a series of guidebooks that became the standard reference work to 214 of the Lake District fells. He also wrote the first Coast to Coast guide, a 192-mile long-distance footpath from St. Bees to Robin Hood's Bay.