Arthur 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)

He succeeded Thomas Corbett as the 3rd Baron Rowallan November 30, 1977.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett	Baron Rowallan 1977–1993	Succeeded by John Polson Cameron Corbet