About Geoffrey Corbett
Lived 1881 – 1937 (aged 56). Geoffrey Corbett was a mountaineer.
Sir Geoffrey Latham Corbett KBE CIE (9 February 1881 – November 1937) was a British member of the Indian Civil Service and a mountaineer. He held senior positions in the Governments of British India and the Kingdom of Egypt.
Early life The son of Frederick Corbett, of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, Corbett was educated at Bromsgrove School and was already a climber while still there. In 1898, when he was seventeen, he made his first climbing trip to Switzerland, visiting the central Alps and climbing the Grand Muveran, the Dent de Morcles, and peaks around Zermatt. In 1899 arrived as a classical scholar at Hertford College, Oxford,
Honours Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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Who was Geoffrey Corbett?
Indian Civil Service officer, mountaineer
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Geoffrey Corbett was born on 9 February 1881.
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Geoffrey Corbett died on 1 November 1937.
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Geoffrey Corbett was a mountaineer.
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