Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan

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Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (born December 19, 1895 in London , † November 30, 1977 in Glasgow , Scotland ) was a British officer and Governor of Tasmania .

Life

Thomas Corbett was born the second child and eldest son of the Scottish politician and businessman Archibald Cameron Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan and his wife Alice Mary Polson in the London borough of Chelsea . After attending Eton College , at the outbreak of World War I, he joined the Ayrshire Yeomanry regiment, a cavalry unit, and fought in the Battle of Gallipoli , the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns and on the Western Front , where he was badly wounded in the legs in 1918. On August 14, 1918, he married Gwyn Mervyn Grimond, a sister of Joseph Grimond .

After the war, he stayed at the Rowallan Castle family estate in Scotland and dedicated himself to cattle and dairy farming. From 1922 he was involved in the scout movement . In 1933 he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Rowallan .

When the Second World War broke out , Corbett put together an infantry regiment of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and in 1939 led it to France under his command with the British Expeditionary Force . After the occupation of France by German troops, the regiment was evacuated from Cherbourg in June 1940 as part of Operation Ariel . Then he was involved in the training of young cadets in England until he retired from the army in 1944 with the rank of lieutenant colonel . From 1945 to 1959, as Chief Scout of the Scout Association, he headed all boy scout groups throughout the Commonwealth .

He was appointed governor of Tasmania on May 28, 1959 and sworn in in Hobart in October of the same year . Corbett is described as an advocate of Tasmania's self-sufficiency; So he insisted in a serious flood disaster in 1960 on direct contact with the British Crown, without going through the Governor General of Australia . Even during his tenure, he continued to raise livestock.

In 1961 he was diagnosed with carcinoma of the oral cavity , which is why he was treated in London. After his tenure ended on March 25, 1963, he returned to Scotland. In 1976 he published his autobiography ( Rowallan ). He died in Glasgow on November 30, 1977. He left a daughter and five sons, the eldest of whom, Arthur Corbett , inherited his title of nobility.

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predecessor Office successor
Archibald Corbett Baron Rowallan
1933-1977 		Arthur Corbett
personal data
SURNAME Corbett, Thomas, 2nd Baron Rowallan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rowallan, Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Governor of Tasmania
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1977
Place of death Glasgow , Scotland