John Rooke Corbett

John Rooke Corbett

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name=J. Rooke Corbett
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birth_date=birth date|1876|9|27|df=y
birth_place=Handforth, Cheshire
death_date=death date and age|1949|8|13|1876|9|27|df=y
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John Rooke Corbett (27 September 1876 – 13 August 1949), better known as J. Rooke Corbett was one of the founder-members of The Rucksack Club and their Convener of Rambles. In the 1920s, Corbett compiled a list of hills between 2500 and 3000 feet with a prominence of at least 500 feet. It was not published until after his death, when his sister passed it to the Scottish Mountaineering Club. It is now well known to Scottish hillwalkers as The Corbetts.

Early life

Rooke Corbett attended both Hulme and Manchester Grammar Schools. While attending St John's College, Cambridge (1895-1898) he walked from Manchester to Cambridge at the beginning of term, and back again at the endcite book | editor = John Beatty | title = This Mountain Life: The First Hundred Years of the Rucksack Club | year = 2002 | publisher = Northern Light | location = Manchester | isbn = 978-0-9546211-0-0 ] .

Climbing

He was the fourth person to complete the Munros [http://www.smc.org.uk/compleatists/compleatist_1.htm Scottish Mountaineering Club list of Munroists] ] in 1930 and the first Sassenach to do so. He was also the second to complete the "Tops".

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