Godfrey Vigne

G.T. Vigne (1801-63) was an amateur cricketer and traveller. Left England for Persia in 1831 and then travelled to India and spent the next seven years travelling to north-west India and Central Asia. He was the first to describe Nanga Parbat. In 1936 he visited Afghanistan, the first Englishman to have visited Kabul, and met the emir Dost Mohammad.