John Oakley Maund

Sir John Oakley Maund († June 10, 1902 in Lanzi in Pisa ) was an English banker, entrepreneur, mountain climber and hunter.

He was the son of Herbert Maund and married in July 1867 (then Lieutenant ) Mary Emily Baring, the daughter of long-time Member of Parliament and Lord Treasurer Major Henry Bingham Baring.

Mountaineer

John Oakley Maund is one of the great mountain personalities of so-called "golden years " of alpinism in the second half of the 19th century.

• 3rd - 5th August 1874: Third ascent attempt on the main summit of Meije ( Massif des Ecrins in the Dauphiné Alps ) on the North Ridge with the leaders of Jean Martin and Johann Jaun had to be canceled the next day just before the finish due to bad weather, however, was as perfectly feasible referred to.

In 1876, he scored within eight days in the Mont Blanc massif alone three first ascents:

• July 31, 1876: Cordier Couloir on the North Face of the Aiguille Verte 4,122 m high in the Mont Blanc massif with Thomas Middlemore, Henri Cordier and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer
• August 4, 1876: Cordier route on the North Face of Les Courtes (next to Aiguille Verte and Les Droites in the Mont Blanc massif ) with Thomas Middlemore, Henri Cordier and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun and Andreas Maurer.
• August 7, 1876: First ascent of the east summit of Les Droites ( in the Mont Blanc massif, lowest 4000 of the Alps), with Thomas Middlemore, Henri Cordier and the leaders Jakob Anderegg, Johann Jaun Younger and Andreas Maurer.

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Entrepreneur

Several sources indicate that John Oakley Maund played an entrepreneurial role in the turbulent period of the British development of the southern part of Africa in the area of the later Rhodesia and Zimbabwe:

• In June, 1889, so about 5 months before the " British South Africa Company " was founded in London the "Exploring Company Limited ", which held a quarter of the shares of the Rudd - Rhodes Concession. John Oakley Maund sat on the Board of Directors alongside famous names such as Alfred Beit, Cecil Rhodes George Cawston and Lord Gifford. Concrete main objective was the development of the Bechuanaland Protectorate and the northern countries.
• In December 1896, the second general meeting of the British West Chartered Company was held under the chairmanship of John Oakley Maund, whose combined transcript shows that the company in the mining industry of southern Africa worked and railway to the north for the rapid extension of the Bechuanaland began.

Hunter

Maund belonged to the English high society and enjoyed going in Au ( Vorarlberg) in the Bregenzerwald region on the hunt. He leased in 1888, the cooperative hunting of Au and finally the entire hunt in the back of the Bregenzerwald with the woodlands of Schoppernau, Hopfreben and Schröcken up to Baad in the small valley.

In the 1890s he bought in the municipality of Schoppernau, Hopfreben on the foothills of the Alps Ünschenberg a secluded, beautifully located building site and was it built a hunting lodge in an English country house style, which is known as Villa Maund today. The English architect ( and painters, poets, artisans, engineers and printers) William Morris had already built two similar-looking houses in the Anglo- Scottish Cottage style in Weggis on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland for Maund before 1888. After topping out in 1892 was 1895, the first hunting party use the villa.