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John Rooke Corbett

John Rooke Corbett

British rock climber

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 Scottish hills between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762.0 and 914.4 metres) with a prominence of at least 500 feet (152.4 metres). It was not published until after his death, when his sister passed it to the Scottish Mountaineering Club; these hills are now well known to Scottish hillwalkers as the Corbetts.

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Early life

Rooke Corbett attended both Hulme and Manchester Grammar Schools. While attending St John's College, Cambridge from 1895 to 1898,[1] he walked from Manchester to Cambridge at the beginning of term, and back again at the end.[2]

Climbing

He was the fourth person to complete the Munros[3] in 1930 and the first Englishman to do so. He was also the second to complete the "Tops".

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Corbett, John Rooke (CRBT895JR)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. [2]
    John Beatty, ed. (2002). This Mountain Life: The First Hundred Years of the Rucksack Club. Manchester: Northern Light. ISBN 978-0-9546211-0-0.
  3. [3]
    Scottish Mountaineering Club list of Munroists Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine


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