biography
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Lunn, Sir Arnold (Henry Moore)
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| lived:
| (1888–1974)
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| biography:
| British alpine ski pioneer and Roman Catholic apologist, born in Chennai (formerly Madras), SE India, the son of the travel-bureau pioneer Sir Henry Lunn (1859–1939), and brother of the writer Hugh Kingsmill. He is remembered for his debates about Catholicism (as a Methodist) with Ronald Knox, for his classic account of his conversion, Now I See (1933), and later for his debates (as a Catholic) with C E M Joad, and others. An accomplished skier, he founded the Ski Club of Great Britain and the Alpine Ski Club, invented slalom gates, and obtained Olympic recognition for the modern Alpine slalom race and downhill races. He founded the British Ski Year Book in 1919, and edited it for more than 50 years. He was knighted in 1952. |
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