William Corbet
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William Corbet (17 August 1779 – 12 August 1842) was an Anglo-Irish soldier in the service of France. In September 1798 he accompanied Napper Tandy in an aborted French mission to Ireland in support of the United Irish insurrection. After two years of incarceration, he escaped from Ireland and served in the campaigns of Napoleon reaching the rank of colonel. In 1831, under the July Monarchy, he was employed in the French expedition to Greece. He returned to France in 1837, retiring with the rank of Major-General.
Ireland and the 1798 Rebellion
He was born in
Service under Napoleon
Corbet escaped in 1803 and returned to France. He was appointed professor of English at the military college of
Morea expedition
In the period of the
Last years
In 1837 he returned to France where, with the rank of Major-General, he was commander in the region of Calvados. He died at Saint-Denis in 1842.
The Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth based the main theme of her novel Ormond on Corbet's 1803 escape from Kilmainham.
References
- ^ Hayes, Richard (1949). Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Dublin: M H Gill and Son. pp. 44–45.
- Henry Boylan, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1978
- Richard Hayes, A Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, MH Gill & Sons Ltd. Dublin 1949
- Stephens, H. Morse (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. pp. 206–207.
- Alfred Webb, "General William Corbet", A Compendium of Irish Bibliography, 1878. https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/GeneralWilliamCorbet.php
- Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852
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