John C. Corlette [SEP] date of birth
John C. Corlette
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) and 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"
Villars, in the canton of Vaud.
The school was founded in 1949 by John C. Corlette, who was a teacher at Gordonstoun, where he was influenced by the notable founder of that school Kurt Hahn. Corlette established principles and practices that were aligned with Hahn's emphasis on the place of adventure and service in education. Aiglon College, alongside Gordonstoun, Schule Schloss Salem, Abbotsholme, Box Hill School and Anavryta, was a founding member of the Round Square, established to promote Hahnian values and links between schools that