John Corbett, 4th Baron Rowallan


John Polson Cameron Corbett, 4th Baron Rowallan is a British hereditary peer. He is the son of Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan, and Eleanor Mary Boyle. He is usually known as Johnny Corbett or Johnny Rowallan.

Biography

He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Agricultural College.
He contested Glasgow Garscadden in the October 1974 general election and Kilmarnock in the 1979 general election as a Conservative.
He inherited Rowallan Castle, the family seat, directly from his grandfather, the 2nd Lord Rowallan, in 1977. The 2nd Baron had disinherited his eldest son and heir, Arthur Corbett, John's father. The Hon. Johnny Corbett was forced to sell Rowallan Castle in 1989. He was declared bankrupt in 1993, the year he succeeded to the peerage. He sat in the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999 when, along with almost all other hereditary peers, he lost his automatic right to a seat with the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999.
He runs the Rowallan Activity Centre, an equestrian centre near Meikle Mosside, Fenwick in Ayrshire, with his third wife, Lady Claire, and her daughter, Sophie Dinning, a former international showjumper. He was chair of British Showjumping from 1998 to 2011.

Marriages

He married his first wife Susan Jane Diane Green, daughter of James Green, in 1971. Together they had two children, Jason William Polson Cameron Corbett and Joanna Gwyn Alice Corbett.
He married his second wife Sandrew Filomena Bryson, daughter of William Bryson, in 1984. They had two children together, Jonathan Arthur Cameron Corbett and Soay Mairi Cameron Corbett.
Lord Rowallan married, thirdly, Claire Dinning Laidler, his present wife, daughter of Robert Laidler, in 1995.

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