John Rooke Corbett
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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 Scottish hills between Script error: No such module "convert". with a prominence of at least Script error: No such module "convert".. 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.
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
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