Education
He was educated at Bournemouth and University College, Reading, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in inorganic chemistry.
He was educated at Bournemouth and University College, Reading, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in inorganic chemistry.
There he became an expert on Malaysian butterflies, co-authoring The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula with Her Majesty Pendlebury in 1934. In 1931 he and his family returned to the United Kingdom and Alexander worked at the Imperial Chemical Industries research station at Jealotts Hill. He later became deputy keeper of entomology at the British Museum (Natural History).
Alexander Steven Corbet died of heart failure in 1948.