Edward Lisle Strutt

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, CBE, DSO (8 February 1874 – 7 July 1948) was a British soldier and mountaineer, and President of the Alpine Club from 1935–38. After a distinguished military career he defended classical mountaineering against what he saw as unhelpful trends in the sport for speed.

Strutt was the son of Hon. Arthur Strutt and Alice Mary Elizabeth Philips de Lisle. His paternal grandfather was Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper. On 10 October 1905 he married Florence Nina, daughter of John Robert Hollond MP DL, of Wonham, Bampton, Devon. They had no children.

Educated at Beaumont College, Windsor, then at Christ Church, Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck, Strutt joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). The battalion was embodied in late December 1899 and sent to South Africa for service during the Second Boer War. Strutt was appointed a Captain on 20 February 1900. He left Cape Town for the United Kingdom with most of the battalion in May 1902, shortly before the end of the war. He later served in the First World War, gaining many decorations and attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Scots.

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