John Rooke Corbett


John Rooke Corbett, 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 with a prominence of at least. 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, he walked from Manchester to Cambridge at the beginning of term, and back again at the end.

Climbing

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