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Henry Corbet (31 December 1820 - 20 December 1878) was an English agricultural writer, and editor of the weekly ''The Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal'' for twenty years.〔"(Corbet, Henry (1820-1878), agricultural editor )" by Nicholas Goddard, in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.'' September 2004.〕 Together with John Morton he is considered one of "the leading agricultural editors during the most prosperous period of Victorian 'high farming' of the 1850s and 1860s."〔Goddard, Nicholas. "(The Development and Influence of Agricultural Periodicals and Newspapers, 1780-1880 )." ''The Agricultural History Review'' (1983): 116-131.〕 ==Biography== Born on the last day of 1820, educated at Bedford School, and prepared for university entrance, Corbet eventually became a London resident. He 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''〔Carrie de Silva ''(A short history of agricultural education and research ).'' Harper Adams University, Newport, Shropshire. 2013.〕 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.〔Joan Thirsk, Edward John T. Collins (1967) ''The Agrarian History of England and Wales.'' p. 676〕 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". During the last three years of his life Corbet suffered from paralysis, and his health gradually declined. At the end of 1875 he was compelled to retire from active work, and it soon became apparent that recovery was hopeless. He died on Sunday 20 December 1879. A sketch of Corbet's life appeared in the ''Farmers Magazine'' for April 1878.〔''British Farmer's Magazine''. 1879. p. 105〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Corbet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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