Corbett stated that you cannot conquer the sea because it is not susceptible to ownership.

However, in his autobiography, Fingleton claimed that Sydney Sun reporter Claude Corbett had received the information from Bradman.

He was memorably described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a " sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul ", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes.

Within eight months of Captain Video's debut, two other landmark series were launched-Tom Corbett, Space Cadet ( 8 / 50-6 / 55 ) and Space Patrol ( 3 / 50-2 / 55 ).

The show starred David Frost, John Cleese and Barker's future comedy partner Ronnie Corbett, whom he had met in 1963 when Corbett was the barman at the Buckstone Club near the Haymarket Theatre, and the two became friends.

Holyoake became Prime Minister two months before the 1957 election, when outgoing Prime Minister Sidney Holland retired due to ill-health, and also became Minister of Māori Affairs on the retirement of Ernest Corbett.

The Indian hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett described an incident in which two tigers fought and killed a large bull elephant.

Corbett said he and Barker were drawn together as two grammar school boys who had not gone to university.

Corbett married actress and dancer Anne Hart in 1965 ; they have two daughters, actresses Emma and Sophie Corbett.

This argument was accepted by the judge, and the legal test for gender in the UK had been since been based on the judgement in Corbett v Corbett ; it had even led to the curiosity of a legal marriage between two lesbians since one had been born male.

Corbett played the leading role in two short-lived television series.

Fighting under the name James J. Braddock ( ostensibly to follow the pattern set by two prior world boxing champions, James J. Corbett and James J. Jeffries ), he was known for his powerful right hand, granite chin and an amazing comeback from a floundering career.

Corbett spent two months in Ireland from August to October 2009 helping ( behind the scenes ) the " Yes " campaign in the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, which resulted in an overwhelming 67 % in favour.

On May 21, 1891, Corbett fought Peter " Black Prince " Jackson, a much-heralded bout between cross-town rivals, since Corbett and Jackson were boxing instructors at San Francisco's two most prestigious athletic clubs.

Corbett treasured his title and viewed it as the ultimate promotional tool for his two main sources of income, theatrical performances and boxing exhibitions.

While on a helicopter tour over downtown Toronto, Tod Stiles and Linc Case ( Martin Milner and Glenn Corbett, respectively ) spot a quintet of girl musicians ( two were played by Lynda Day and Jessica Walter ), who were stranded in the city, sleeping on the benches in the covered north grandstand.

The Thak man-eating tigress, when skinned by Corbett, revealed two old gunshot wounds ; one in her shoulder had become septic, and as Corbett suggested, could have been the reason for the tigress's having turned man-eater.

In 1950, owner Jack Corbett sold the team in August to Dick Saunders and Tom Love, two young El Paso building contractors.

Corbett defined the two fundamental methods of obtaining control of the lines of communication as the actual physical destruction or capture of enemy warships and merchants, and or a naval blockade.

Darrell is said to haunt the site of his death, known as Darrell's stile ( or Style, as well as the church at Ramsbury, two miles away ), although one famed clairvoyant, Tom Corbett, detected nothing of the sort.

A contemporary of heavyweight champion " Gentleman Jim " ( James J. Corbett ), the two fought professionally three times.

Through the next two years she performed various parts in Bubbling Brown Sugar and television appearances in Seaside Special ( on Saturday, June 25, 1977 ), Supersonic ( on Saturday, March 5, 1977-show 40 ), The Ronnie Corbett Show, Jack Parnell's Show, Vince Hill's Musical Time Machine and Bruce Forsyth's Bring on the Girls.

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

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

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

The character of Zefram Cochrane had first appeared in the Original Series episode " Metamorphosis ", played by Glenn Corbett.

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.

Given this they would have qualified as Corbett summits had they been under 3, 000 feet.

By contrast, world heavyweight champion " Gentleman " Jim Corbett had used many of the same techniques a decade earlier, and was praised by the press as " the cleverest man in boxing.

Barker and Corbett had a greater role on the show than on The Frost Report and Corbett felt " more aware of what were doing.

In order to maintain the deception, Barker had criticised material he himself had submitted under the pseudonym ; when a Wiley-credited sketch about a ventriloquist had been poorly received by the audience Barker told Corbett " Well, Gerald Wiley let us down there ", and on another occasion, when looking at a script, " I don't understand this line.

Barker, who had told Corbett earlier in the day, stood up and announced he was Wiley, although initially nobody believed him.

Corbett said he had " a mastery of the English language ".

Corbett, writing in the Alberta Law Quarterly, notes that with Hale's popularity at the time ( Parliamentary constituencies " fought over the privilege of returning him ") he could have been just as successful as Coke if he had chosen to take an active role in public affairs.

Appearing on TV from its earliest days, he was one of the cadets in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet from 1951 to 1954, had regular roles in three series between 1973 and 1984 and did countless cartoon voices, including that of Piglet for Disney.

While other televised science fiction programs such as Captain Video and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet had continually dwindling sets, Space Patrol sets grew larger and larger.

In addition, Corbett noted that while extramarital sex is also contrary to Catholic teaching, the school board had previously allowed pregnant, unmarried students to attend the prom.

White flags had been sighted in the port, and when Lieutenant Corbett of Lookout approached the port in a motor launch he was told that the island's garrison wished to surrender.

The engineer of the new line, William Cubitt, was also engineer of the London and Croydon Railway ( L & CR ), which planned to use L & GR lines as far as Corbett ’ s Lane Southwark before turning south towards Croydon.

Gerald Corbett, Railtrack's chief executive at the time, and Winsor clearly saw things very differently to each other.

" Barker and Corbett wished to avoid being remembered primarily as a duo, and felt they could not work in the same way as a conventional double act like Morecambe and Wise, and so each maintained their solo careers as well.

The Two Ronnies took up one third of a year to produce, allowing time for Barker and Corbett to each do a solo project.

Both Barker and Corbett had their own solo sections on each show.

Likewise, Corbett always had a discoursive solo monologue in each show, when he sat in a chair, facing the camera, attempting to tell a simple joke, but constantly distracting himself into relating other humorous incidents.

John Livingstone Nevius and Hunter Corbett ( 1862 – 1918 ) co-operated in this latter work, by giving a theological education to candidates for ministry during a portion of each year at Yantai.

A 19th century book of the region's history describes a subscription of £ 25 each from William Kinge and William Collmer ( Colmore ), of Burmingham ; Richard Middlemore, Edgbaston ; Mrs. Margarett Knowlys, Nuneton ; Gabriell Powltney, Knowle and Richard Corbett, Meryden, & c.