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7 unusual facts about Thomas Corbett


Rowallan Power Station

Work commenced on the project in 1963 and it is named after Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, the former Governor of Tasmania.

Second Secretary to the Admiralty

25 June 1728: Thomas Corbett, deputy secretary later joint secretary (to 13 October 1742)

Southern Cross Television

On the opening night the station was officially inaugurated by Lord Rowallan, the Governor of Tasmania.

Thomas Corbett

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories

Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (1895–1977), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire and Governor of Tasmania

Boston Corbett (Thomas P. Corbett, 1832–1894), Union Army soldier who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth

Thorntoun house and estate

By the beginning of the seventeenth century Thorntoun had passed into the ownership of another ancient and renowned Ayrshire family, the Mures (or Muirs), a branch of the Mures of Rowallan Castle near Kilmaurs.


John Corbett, 4th Baron Rowallan

The 4th Lord Rowallan inherited Rowallan Castle, the family seat, directly from his grandfather, the 2nd Lord Rowallan, in 1977.


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