John C. Corlette was born John Hubert Christian Corlette on 21 June 1911, and died 9 December 1977. He was the son of Hubert C Corlette (an Australian architect) & his wife Florence Gwynedd Davies-Berrington.
Corlette was an English architect who, in 1949, founded the private English-style boarding school Aiglon College in Switzerland. The school is registered as a not-for-profit charitable institution, with an international student intake. Corlette was a former pupil ("Stoic") of Stowe School in Buckinghamshire, and a former teacher at Gordonstoun, a private school in Scotland - he included some of the latter school's educational ideas in the formation of Aiglon.
Corlette's death in 1977 came after an extended illness.
Read more about John C. Corlette: Early Years, University Life and His First Decade of Employment, The Start of Aiglon, Links To Round Square
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