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 book illustration, e.g. in the Abbotsford edition of the ‘Waverley Novels’ (Cadell, 1841–6), and in Black's edition of the same (1852–3), Spenser's ‘Faerie Queen’ and Chaucer's ‘Canterbury Tales’ (Routledge, 1853), Tupper's ‘Proverbial Philosophy’ (1854), Willmott's ‘Poets of the Nineteenth Century’ (1857), ‘Merrie Days of England’ (1858–9), and in periodicals such as ‘London Society,’ the ‘Churchman's Family Magazine,’ ‘Cassell's Magazine,’ and the ‘Illustrated London News.’ He died at Kensington on 18 Jan. 1905.

He was thrice married: (1) on 28 Sept. 1839 to Fanny Jemima (d. 1850), daughter of the engraver Charles Heath [q. v.], by whom he had three daughters, one of whom, Isabel Fanny (Mrs. G. H. Heywood), has two daughters who are artists, Mrs. Eveline Corbould-Ellis and Mrs. Weatherley; (2) on 7 Aug. 1851 to Anne Middleton Wilson (d. 1866), by whom he had two sons, Ridley Edward Arthur Lamothe (1854–1887) and Victor Albert Louis Edward (b. 1866); (3) on 15 Jan. 1868 to Anne Melis Sanders, by whom he had one son and one daughter.

The only painting preserved in a public gallery is a water-colour of ‘Lady Godiva’ in the National Gallery of New South Wales. The following are among the more important prints after his paintings: ‘The Canterbury Pilgrims assembled at the old Tabard Inn’ (mezzotint by C. E. Wagstaff, 1843); ‘Henry VI welcomed to London after his Coronation’ (engraved by E. Webb, 1847; the original now in Berlin); ‘My Chickens for Sale’ (1847), ‘Maid of the Mill’ (1849), and ‘Valentine's Eve’ (1850) (mezzotints by Samuel Bellin); ‘Happy as a Queen’ (1852), and ‘The Wood Nymph’ (mezzotints by W. H. Egleton, 1855); ‘The Fairy Well’ (mezzotint by J. E. Coombs, 1855); ‘Lady Godiva’ (mezzotint by J. J. Chant, 1860); ‘The Queen of the Tournament’ (mezzotint by T. W. Huffam); ‘The Plague of London’ (one of the Westminster Hall Cartoons, lithograph by Frank Howard); portrait of the Prince Consort (lithograph by R. J. Lane, 1862).

A miniature portrait of Corbould by his grand-daughter, Mrs. Weatherley, is in the possession of Dr. Victor Corbould.

 CORFIELD, WILLIAM HENRY (1843–1903), professor of hygiene and public health, born on 14 Dec. 1843 at Shrewsbury, was eldest son of Thomas Corfield, a chemist of that town, by his wife Jane Brown, of a Gloucestershire family. Educated at Cheltenham grammar school, he gained a demyship in natural science at Magdalen College, Oxford, matriculating on 12 Oct. 1861, and gaining a first class in mathematical moderations in 1863. He was then selected by Prof. C. G. B. Daubeny [q. v.] to accompany him to Auvergne, where he investigated the volcanic appearances in the Montbrison district. Returning to Oxford, he gained a first class in the final school of mathematics and physics in Michaelmas term 1864, and graduated B.A. From 1865 to 1875 he held, after open competition, the Sheppard medical fellowship at Pembroke College. In Michaelmas term 1865 he won a first class in the natural science school, in which he acted as examiner during 1873–4. He entered University College, London, as a medical student in 1865, in 1866 won the Burdett-Coutts scholarship at Oxford for geology, and next year was elected Radcliffe travelling fellow.

Influenced by Sir Henry W. Acland [q. v. Suppl. I] and by George Rolleston [q. v.], Corfield had by this time directed his attention more particularly to hygiene and sanitary science. A portion of his foreign travel was spent in Paris, where he attended Bouchardat's lectures and studied hygiene under Berthelot at the Collège de France. He proceeded afterwards to Lyons, worked at clinical medicine and surgery, and made a special study of the remains of the remarkable aqueducts of ancient Lugdunum. He also visited some of the medical schools in Italy and Sicily. He graduated M.B. at Oxford in 1868, and M.D. in 1872. In 1869 he was admitted M.R.C.P. London, and in 1875 he was elected F.R.C.P. He became a fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1877.

Meanwhile in 1869 Corfield was appointed professor of hygiene and public health at University College, London, and in 1875 he opened the first laboratory in London for the practical teaching of hygiene. In 1876 Corfield actively helped to found a museum of practical hygiene in memory of E. A. Parkes [q. v.], which was placed first at University College, afterwards at Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, and since 1909 at Buckingham Palace Road, Westminster, being now maintained by the Royal 