Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sir Jack Longland (June 26 1905 - November 29 1993) was an educator and mountain climber. He was Director of Education for Derbyshire for 23 years. As a mountaineer, he is remembered for his heroic actions during an expedition up Mount Everest in 1933. He was the first quizmaster on the BBC radio panel game My Word. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.