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[[File:Menlove.jpg|thumb|John Menlove Edwards]]'''John Menlove Edwards''' (18 June 1910 – 2 February 1958) was one of the leading British rock climbers of the interwar period and wrote poetry based on his experiences climbing. He was born near [[Southport]] and studied medicine at [[Liverpool University]], where he became a child psychiatrist. During World War II he was a conscientious objector. 

Edwards was gay, at a time when homosexuality was still a criminal offence. After an unhappy personal life, which made him vulnerable to bouts of depression, he committed suicide with a cyanide capsule in 1958.

His first ascents include many of the now-classic rock routes on the crags of the [[Llanberis]] Pass in Snowdonia such as "Flying Buttress", "Spiral Stairs", "Crackstone Rib", "Nea" and "Brant".

==Further reading==
Jim Perrin, <cite>Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards</cite>, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1985. 

[[Category:Rock climbers]]
[[Category:Conscientious objectors]]
[[Category:Suicides]]
[[Category:1958 deaths]]
[[Category:1910 births]]