11 Facts About Lawrence Wager

Lawrence Wager then entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in geology in 1926.

Lawrence Wager was, later, identified as one of a number of the Cambridge Night Climbers, along with Gino Watkins and Vivian Fuchs, among others.

In 1930, Lawrence Wager made his first trip to eastern Greenland with the British Arctic Air Route Expedition led by Gino Watkins.

Early in the expedition, Lawrence Wager identified and named the Skaergaard intrusion at the mouth of the Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord and immediately realised its significance, a realisation that has been called "a stroke of genius".

Lawrence Wager was commissioned as a pilot officer on 12 August 1940, and promoted to flying officer a year later.

Lawrence Wager was promoted to temporary flight lieutenant on 1 September 1942, and the rank was made substantive on 11 February 1943.

In 1944 Lawrence Wager was appointed to the Chair of Geology at the University of Durham.

In 1946, Lawrence Wager was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for 'his important contribution to knowledge of calc-alkaline Rocks, magmatic differentiation, and the mechanics of igneous intrusion'.

Lawrence Wager's nominators included Herbert Hawkins, EB Bailey, HH Read and Harold Jeffreys.

Lawrence Wager moved to the University of Oxford in 1950 as Professor of Geology.

Lawrence Wager made a further expedition to Greenland in 1953 with Alex Deer, but in 1955 a heart attack put an end to his career as an active mountaineer and explorer.