Captain Bertie Oswald Corbett - English footballer, cricketer and educationalist

B.O. Corbett

Bertie Oswald Corbett was born in Thame on 15th May 1875 and is still famed within the club for writing the first history of the club ‘The Annals of the Corinthian F.C.’ in 1906. Corbett was educated at Thame Grammar School and progressed to Oxford University where he gained Blues in football. Corbett was elected a member of the Corinthian F.C. and remained in continuous membership of Corinthians, Casuals and later the Corinthian-Casuals until he died on 30th November 1967. He was also secretary of the Corinthian F.C. between 1902 and 1904.

Corbett also played for Reading and Slough during the 1906/07 season whilst teaching in the area, aswell as being capped once by England in 1901 against Wales. At the age of 15 he represented Oxfordshire; he played through out his career in the outside-left position and was noted for his pace and body swerve. G.O. Smith thought the most satisfying goal of his whole career which was scored in the 2-1 victory against Aston Villa in the Sheriff of London Shield, came about from a pass by Corbett. One of his many achievements came in 1903 when he helped to settle the controversy surrounding the use of penalty kicks in public schools matches. His other sporting achievements included playing cricket for Buckinghamshire and once for Derbyshire

Corbett was a teacher by profession and started at Brighton College, before moving to Ludgrove. Later he ran his own prep school at Shardlow Hall in Derbyshire until he retired to Waddon Manor in Dorset where he had over 700 acres of land on which to start his new career as a farmer. During the war he handed over half his land to the nation.

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Captain Bertie Oswald Corbett (1875-1967), head and shoulders portrait in the uniform of a Captain in the Grenadier Guards

 

Heres his brother - John Corbett !

Full name - Cornelius John Corbett
Born - 8th March 1883, Thame, Oxfordshire, England
Died - 10th April 1944, Chandlers Ford, Hampshire, England
Batting - Right-hand batsman
Relations - Brother: BO Corbett
Teams - Derbyshire (Main FC: 1911-1924)

 

I started looking for the other brother and found this

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But then I found this ........ !

http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/2008/02/post-script-to-ashe-obolensky-story.html