Denys Corbet
Guernsey artist and poet
Died when: 82 years 334 days (994 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Denys Corbet (22 May 1826 – 21 April 1909) was a Guernsey poet, naïve painter, and schoolmaster, the second son of Pierre Corbet, a seafarer, and Susanne (née de Beaucamp).
He was born at La Turquie, Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands and is thought to have lost his parents in childhood.
He married, probably in 1852, Mary "Elizabeth" Wellington (1833–1909) and had six children.Corbet wrote, for the most part, in the Dgèrnésiais or Guernsey French language.
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