Individual Details

Elisabeth was an expert skier and was for many years Secretary of the Ski Club of Great Britain, a job which took her all over the world: Europe, North and South America, Japan, Australia and Russia. She first came to the Ski Club in 1964 as assistant editor to Arnold Lunn on The British Ski Year Book. Mr Lunn was already known to the Elisabeth as her sister Philippa had been his secretary some years earlier. The British Ski Year Book later became Ski Survey before being launched as Ski+board magazine in 1997. Ski+board is still in publication today. Elisabeth co-wrote with Bruce Battrick a biography of Sir Arnold Lunn[published 2015], detailing Sir Arnold's organisation of the first downhill and slalom races, his founding of the Kandahar Ski Club and his campaign to have Alpine skiing included in the 1936 Olympics.

Elisabeth, who never married, lived for many years with her sister Philippa in Vane House, Warren Rise, New Malden, Greater London.

Birth	1929	Putney Heath, London
Death	2 Dec 2017	Wimbledon, London

Father	Robert (Bob) Edward HUSSEY (1893 - 1947)
Mother	Veronica (Vera) A. CONNOLLY (1894 - 1976)
Sibling	Philippa Mary Josephine HUSSEY (1922 - 2020)
Sibling	Ruth Veronica M. HUSSEY (1925 - 2018)
Sibling	Living