Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan
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Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (December 17, 1919–1993) was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 by a court on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transsexual woman, was a man under then-current UK law. The argument was accepted, and the case served as a precedent for all such cases until the Gender Recognition Act 2004 was passed, which provided said needed legal framework for changing a person's legal gender.
With his first wife, Eleanor Mary Boyle, whom he married in 1945 and divorced in 1961, Baron Rowallan had four children:
- John Polson Cameron Corbett (born March 8, 1947), who became the 4th Baron on his father's death
- Sarah Elizabeth Cameron Corbett (born April 5, 1949)
- Anne Mary Cameron Corbett (born September 3, 1953)
- Rosalind Eleanor Cameron Corbett (born January 2, 1958)
| Preceded by: Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett | Baron Rowallan | Succeeded by: John Polson Cameron Corbet |