Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan

For the Australian public servant, see Arthur Corbett (public servant).

Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (17 December 1919 1993), was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 by a court on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law.[1][2] The argument was accepted, and the case served as a precedent for all such cases until the Gender Recognition Act 2004 was passed, which provided the needed legal framework for changing a person's legal gender.

With his first wife, Eleanor Mary Boyle, whom he married in 1945 and divorced in 1961, Lord Rowallan had four children:

He succeeded Thomas Corbett as the 3rd Baron Rowallan on 30 November 1977.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett
Baron Rowallan
19771993
Succeeded by
John Polson Cameron Corbett


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