Work commenced on the project in 1963 and it is named after Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan, the former Governor of Tasmania.
On the opening night the station was officially inaugurated by Lord Rowallan, the Governor of Tasmania.
Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan (1895–1977), Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire and Governor of Tasmania
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.
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The 4th Lord Rowallan inherited Rowallan Castle, the family seat, directly from his grandfather, the 2nd Lord Rowallan, in 1977.
25 June 1728: Thomas Corbett, deputy secretary later joint secretary (to 13 October 1742)
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, the main character in a series of Tom Corbett — Space Cadet stories
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Boston Corbett (Thomas P. Corbett, 1832–1894), Union Army soldier who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth