Dom Edward Corbould died on 6 November at the age of 92. For three and a half decades of his long life he was Housemaster of St Edward’s House at Ampleforth; he represented one of the last links between the present-day monastery and its more glorious past. He joined the school in 1946, and, as was still common at the time, became one of the boys who later joined the monastic community.
Born in Suffolk on 29 September 1932, Michael Corbould was the son of a High Anglican vicar and his aristocratic wife. Not long after he was born, they took the decision to “cross the Tiber”, and the family was received into the Catholic Church by the Jesuits at Farm Street. After they moved to Norfolk he was sent to All Hallows, a Catholic prep school which had been evacuated to Devon but returned to Somerset after the war.
