Lieutenant-Colonel Uvedale Shobdon Corbett

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Member of Parliament (MP) for

Ludlow Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...

from 1945 to 1951. Corbett was born near

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on 12 September 1909 and educated at

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and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. He was commissioned into the

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in 1929. He acquired the nickname 'Streak' at the

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at Weedon. In the

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, he was awarded the DSO for his actions during the capture and defence of the Orne Bridgehead during the Normandy campaign in August 1944. After representing Ludlow in Parliament from 1945 to 1951, he went into the poultry industry and co-founded the West Midlands Broiler Hatchery and, in 1960, Sun Valley Poultry. He was president of the British Poultry Federation from 1979 to 1984 and was appointed CBE in 1984 for services to the industry. He married Veronica Whitehead in 1935; they divorced in 1952. They had two sons and a daughter. He married Patricia Jane Walker in 1953. She died in 1985, and he married Peggy Roberts in 1987.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corbett, Uvedale 1909 births 2005 deaths Military personnel from Shrewsbury UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politicians from Ludlow Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of World War II Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich People educated at Wellington College, Berkshire Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Deputy lieutenants of Hereford and Worcester Businesspeople from Ludlow