Charles Corbett

Charles Joseph Henry Corbett, BCL (1853 – 20 November 1935) was a British Liberal Party politician in the radical tradition who was part of a prominent family who supported women's rights.

For the American businessman and politician, see Charles A. Corbett. For the baseball player, see Charles Corbett (baseball).

Charles Corbett

Family

He was a son of C. J. Corbett of Thames Ditton. He married in 1881, Marie, daughter of George Gray of Tunbridge Wells. She was an English suffragist, local government worker and supporter of the Liberal Party. They had one son and two daughters, Cicely and Margery, an international feminist campaigner and Liberal Parliamentary candidate.

He was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, and was subsequently called to the bar at the Middle Temple.

Political career

Parliament

Corbett was a Liberal candidate in East Grinstead in the elections of 1895 and 1900, but was unsuccessful. He sat as Liberal MP for East Grinstead Division of Sussex from 1906–January 1910, having been elected in the Liberal landslide win of 1906, when he became the first and only Liberal to win the division.[1] He was defeated at the January 1910 General Election.

References

Who Was Who; http://www.ukwhoswho.com

  1. F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Elections Results 1885–1918; Macmillan Press, 1974 p. 404
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