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'''Henry Corbet''' (1820-1878) was an English agricultural writer. He edited the weekly Mark Lane Express and Agricultural Journal for twenty years. |
'''Henry Corbet''' (1820-1878) was an English agricultural writer. He edited the weekly Mark Lane Express and Agricultural Journal for twenty years.<ref>http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/56332</ref> According to Goddard (1983) he and John Morton have been "the leading agricultural editors during the most prosperous period of Victorian 'high farming' of the 1850s and 1860s."<ref name="NG 1983"> Goddard, Nicholas. "[http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/31n2a4.pdf The Development and Influence of Agricultural Periodicals and Newspapers, 1780-1880." ''The Agricultural History Review'' (1983): 116-131.</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:31, 1 March 2014
Henry Corbet (1820-1878) was an English agricultural writer. He edited the weekly Mark Lane Express and Agricultural Journal for twenty years.[1] According to Goddard (1983) he and John Morton have been "the leading agricultural editors during the most prosperous period of Victorian 'high farming' of the 1850s and 1860s."[2]
Biography
Corbet was educated at Bedford School and came to prominence when he was elected Secretary of the London Farmers Club in 1846. Between 1846 and 1849, Corbet edited the Steeplechase Calendar and collaborated with William Shaw (editor of the Mark Lane Express since its foundation in 1832) and Philip Pusey in an investigation into tenant rights. This work provided Corbet with material which was awarded a prize by the Wenlock Farmers' Club in 1847. In 1848, with Shaw, he produced an extensive "Digest of Evidence on the Agricultural Customs of England and Wales" which, together with the prize essay of 1847, became a standard reference text on the subject.
Corbet also wrote for the Mark Lane Express and became its editor shortly after Shaw fled from England to Australia in 1852 to escape bankruptcy. Corbet spent the rest of his working life at the Mark Lane Express, retiring from its editorship, and the secretaryship of the London Farmers Club, in 1875 as his health failed.
In addition to his secretaryship of the London Farmers Club, Corbet was closely involved with the activities of the Total Repeal Malt-Tax Association. In the early 1860s, he helped to reform the affairs of the Royal Smithfield Club. In 1859, he was appointed auditor to the Royal Agricultural Society of England after it was discovered that the secretary, James Hudson, had embezzled £2,000 of the year's show receipts. Corbet also campaigned, with some success, against the over-exploitation of horses and, collaborating with his brother, Edward Corbet, in 1871 he established the Alexandra Park Horse Show.
Corbet gave a number of talks to the London Farmers Club which were published in its journal and elsewhere, and he contributed to a range of sporting publications such as The Field, Bell's Life in London, All the Year Round, and the New Sporting Magazine. Some of his writings were collected and published in 1864 as "Tales and Traits of Sporting Life".
References
- ^ http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/56332
- ^ Goddard, Nicholas. "[http://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/31n2a4.pdf The Development and Influence of Agricultural Periodicals and Newspapers, 1780-1880." The Agricultural History Review (1983): 116-131.