HCR diary 25.12.1827 Christmas dinner at Aders "There was also a Mr Corbould a rattling fellow - who amused us much by a narrative of adventures - I was concerned against him in a case of assault and battery once in Norwich. He kept us alive the whole of the evening and of course we staid out late"
8.10.1831 "an agreeable dinner at Aders, but Laurent the painter and a Mr Corbould were there so we had not much conversation"
Probably Charles Corbould (1799-1892) see The Corbould Genealogy by George C B Poulter (1935). 3rd son of the Rev John Corbould (1768-1810) and his wife Elizabeth (1769-1852 nee Warren). He was born at Bracon Ash, Norfolk on 2.5.1799. Having met Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon in his youth, he sounds the sort of person to have had many stories. A midshipman RN from age 13, he left the Navy "at the close of the war" and according to Poulter's book he matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1823, though he does not appear in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses, nor does his younger brother Edward who Poulter also claimed was at Emmanuel. Poulter said Corbould practised as an attorney at 8 Grays Inn Square from 1829 to 1837. He was articled 10.2.1818 to Pynson Wilmot Longdill (QV*) attorney and brother-in-law of Mrs Aders. Longdill died, supposedly insane, in 1823, and clerkships usually lasted 5 years, so Corbould may have been a practising attorney from 1823, and was likely to have been at the Norwich assizes near his homeplace. By 1837 he had gone to Canada where he defended the Toronto bank against the 1837 rebels. He married in Toronto in 1840 and was engaged in farming and milling projects in Canada. He died 11.12.1892.