The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

Thomas P. " Boston " Corbett ( 1832 – presumed dead September 1, 1894 ) was the Union Army soldier who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

Corbett was born in London, England.

Captured by Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby's men at Culpeper, Virginia on June 24, 1864, Corbett was held prisoner at Andersonville prison for five months, when he was exchanged.

Corbett was positioned near a large crack in the barn wall.

Corbett was immediately arrested for violation of his orders, but Stanton later had the charges dropped.

In his official statement, Corbett claimed he shot Booth because he thought Lincoln's assassin was preparing to use his weapons.

In 1887, because of his fame as Booth's killer, Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka.

No one was hurt, but Corbett was arrested and sent to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane.

A small sign also was placed to mark the dug hole where Corbett for a time had lived.

In 1934, then enrolled as a graduate student at King's College London, he wrote his Ph. D. thesis on Trade and War in the Eastern Seas, 1803-1810, which was awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History for 1935.

The show was eventually cancelled due to a copyright infringement lawsuit based on the shows conceptual similarity to Tom Corbett.

Narrated by Anton Lesser, with Geoffrey Whitehead as Death, Carl Prekopp as Mort, Clare Corbett as Ysabell and Alice Hart as Princess Keli, the programme was first broadcast in four parts in mid-2004 and has been repeated frequently, most recently on BBC7.

Coors was later found murdered, and Joseph Corbett, Jr., is indicted for the crime.

Mayor Daley was married to Margaret Corbett until her death after a ten-year battle with metastatic breast cancer ( which had spread to her bones and liver ) on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2011.

Following a Summer 2011 height survey by The Munro Society, Beinn a ' Chlaidheimh was confirmed by the SMC in September 2012 as having been demoted from Munro to Corbett status.

It was published on October 7, 2009 ( ISBN 978-0-393-06567-1 ) in German with " separate English translation along with Shamdasani's introduction and footnotes " at the back of the book, according to Sara Corbett for The New York Times.

On June 5, 1889, the legendary prize fight between James J. Corbett and Joe Choynski was held on a barge off the coast of Benicia.

* Boston Corbett was inspired by this same verse to castrate himself ( Corbett was the 19th-century American soldier who is generally believed to have fired the shot that killed John Wilkes Booth ).

Regular productions are staged at the theatre, which was named after Harry H. Corbett ( 1925 – 1982 ), himself a Theatre Workshop member and benefactor of East 15.

Additionally, Corbett starred in the 2007 Lifetime Television film, Montana Sky, and co-starred as a corrupt LAPD vice squad member in Street Kings ( 2008 ).

Corbett was a member of the Parliament's Constitutional Affairs committee and the spokesman for the Labour Party, as well as the whole of the wider Group of the Party of European Socialists, on European constitutional affairs.

Patrick " Packy " Corbett ( born 1909 ), former Onondaga County Sheriff, was named honorary member of the group after growing up on Tipp Hill, however, would not acknowledge vandalizing the traffic light.

Corbett appeared as Chance Reynolds, a regular cast member on the NBC Western The Road West ( 1966 – 1967 ), with co-stars Barry Sullivan, Kathryn Hays, Andrew Prine, Brenda Scott, and Kelly Corcoran.

In 2007, she returned to MST3K-style riffing on bad movies, joining former castmate Mike Nelson's RiffTrax for the film Glitter, and Bill Corbett for The X-Files movie, as well as becoming a cast member on Joel Hodgson's Cinematic Titanic, making her one of a select few MST3K alumni to be involved with both Mike and Joel's successor projects.

Together with Corbett, he was a founding member of India's first national park established in 1935, which was renamed to Corbett National Park in 1957.

His father, William Henry Corbett, was also a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1903 to 1907.

He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, where he met his wife, fellow Coast Guard member Nancy Corbett.

William Robbins ( William Corbett " W. C ." Robbins ; born August 9, 1885, date of death unknown ) was an American athlete and a member of the Irish American Athletic Club.

Since 2002, Corbett has been a member of The Film Crew, a movie-riffing comedic team comprising former MST3K costars Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy.

Corbett re-enlisted in September 1863 as a private in Company L, 16th New York Cavalry Regiment.

In April 1861, early in the American Civil War, Corbett enlisted as a private in Company I of the 12 Regiment New York Militia.

After his discharge from the army in August 1865, Corbett went back to work as a hatter, first in Boston, later in Connecticut, and by 1870 in New Jersey.

* But I Digress: The Collected Monologues of Ramblin ' Ronnie Corbett David Renwick ( New English Library, 1989.

Notable also was the private member's bill introduced by Alan Corbett in the New South Wales Legislative Council to amend the Crimes Act of 1900.

* 7 September — James J. Corbett wins the World Heavyweight Championship with a 21st round knockout of John L. Sullivan in New Orleans.

On September 7, 1892, at the Olympic Club in New Orleans, Louisiana, Corbett won the World Heavyweight Championship by knocking out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round.

From 1903 until his death, Corbett lived in a three-story home in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens in New York City.

On his passing in 1933, Corbett was interred in the Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

She survived Corbett by more than a quarter century, living in their home at 221-04 Corbett Road in Bayside, New York, on the north shore of Queens, near the city limits.

Her brother Corbett, a reclusive sheep farmer in New Zealand flies to Miami and gleefully arranges more surprises for Chaz: he hires a squadron of helicopters to buzz Chaz ’ s Hummer on his way to the Everglades, parodying a scene from Goodfellas, and then arranges a memorial service for Joey at which Chaz is expected to give a speech.

Corbett has taken an interest in Ricca, and invites her to share some time on his farm in New Zealand.

The first recording was by a band called Dosage B which was led by Jeremy Corbett who subsequently became a well known radio host in New Zealand.

The Main Building was the first building designed by New York-based architects Pell & Corbett, who were awarded the contract when they won a $ 500 design contest sponsored by the New York Association of Independent Architects.

In 1896, returning to New York to fight against Mike Donovan he was acclaimed by World Heavyweight Champion James J. Corbett as " the man to whom we owe the changes that have elevated the sport ".

The building was designed by architect and skyscraper pioneer Harvey Wiley Corbett ( who would later have a hand in designing New York's Rockefeller Center ) and was supervised by his assistant, Wallace Harrison ( who would later design Lincoln Center, LaGuardia Airport and the U. N. Headquarters Building ).

The other space-adventure series of the period were Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, also broadcast live from New York City, and Space Patrol, broadcast live from California.

After Coors was missing and Corbett was implicated, a nationwide manhunt was conducted that spanned from California to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and eventually to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

* Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett ( New York: Turtle Point Press, 2004 ).

* William Corbett becomes director of the New Theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields.