Raymond Corboy was the eldest of six boys, of whom four became priests. His parents were Patrick Corboy and Matilda Routledge and they lived at Whitley Bay. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 December 1897. At the age of eleven he was sent to Ushaw (1908-17) where, from first to last, he spent almost half of his life. He broke off his studies in 1917 to go on active service in France with the Royal Garrison Artillery. On demobilisation he returned for a second period at Ushaw (1919-27) from where he was ordained for the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, 25 July 1926. For one year after ordination he was kept on the teaching staff at Ushaw and then came up to Cambridge as a member of Christ's College and a resident at St Edmund's House (1927-30). He read Classics, took a Second in Part I and a First in Part II and proceeded BA in 1930. He then went back to teach classics at Ushaw (1930-46) where, at the time of his appointment to Cambridge, he held the position of Prefect of Studies. His next eighteen years were to belong to Cambridge (1946-64) where his Mastership was to be the longest and most charismatic in the history of St Edmund's House. He resigned in the term preceding his sixty-seventh birthday and went to Germany where at first he divided his time between two convents which belonged to the same congregation of Notre Dame which he had brought to St Edmund's House. In the summer months he served as chaplain to the community of Kaldenkirchen near the Dutch frontier, and in the winter performed a like service at Bad Neuheim. After some years the convent at Kaldenkirchen no longer needed his services and he began to spend the summer months each year at St Kentigern's, Blackpool, helping the parish priest with the extra load of pastoral work which fell to the parish during the holiday season. He continued, however, to spend the winter months at the Haus Lioba in Bad Neuheim. His conspicuous service both to St Edmund's House and to wider circles in the University did not pass unrecognised. In 1954 he was nominated an Honorary Canon of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. In 1964 he was created a Domestic Prelate to Pope Paul VI. Downing College, which always regarded him with the greatest affection, conferred an Honorary Fellowship upon him at the end of January, 1970. In 1973, when the enactment of the new constitution seemed to set the seal on all that he had worked for, St Edmund's House likewise elected him an Honorary Fellow. Raymond Corboy died on October 3 1979. [Notes courtesy of Garrett Sweeney, 'St Edmund's House, Cambridge: The First Eighty Years'.]