John Rooke Corbett
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1876 – 1949
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Who was John Rooke Corbett?
John Rooke Corbett, 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.
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1876
Handforth - Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Died
- Aug 13, 1949
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on July 23, 2013
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