Louise Nettleton

Louise Nettleton (née Dyer) (1874–1954) was a British archery champion and a mountaineer.

Biography Louise Dyer was born in Surry in 1874, the daughter of Abraham Dyer, a chemist. In 1898 she married Charles William Nettleton (1871–1962) and during the Great War she was a certified mechanic in the Motor Section of the WVR. She died on 22 October 1954.

Mountaineering Nettleton was a distinguished mountaineer who was elected President of the Ladies' Alpine Club (1920–1922).

She excelled at rock climbing, both in the Alps and on short technical routes in the UK. Her greatest alpine achievement during those years was leading the traverse of the Aiguille du Grépon in 1903, accompanied by her husband and a porter. in the introduction to his book he adds that "The traverse of the Aiguille de Grepon at Chamonix is just as much rock-gymnastics as the ascent of Kern Knotts Crack on Great Gable". She led Kern Knotts Crack at the age of 23, only a year after Owen Glynne Jones had made the first ascent in 1897.

Archery Nettleton's "fame as an archer was great". and was awarded the gold medal in the women's individual competition at the 1938 World Archery Championships where she finished as co-champion with Nora Weston Martyr, no silver medal was awarded that year. In 1933, 1939 and 1946 she was the British National Champion

She was Honorary Vice-president of the Grand National Archery Society (later Archery GB), the Southern Counties Archery Society and the Royal Toxophilite Society.