Education
Peterhouse; Rugby School.
Peterhouse; Rugby School.
Educated at Rugby School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, Corder joined the Royal Navy in 1978. He commanded the submarine HMS Oracle, then the submarine HMS Splendid and finally the frigate HMS Cumberland. He went on to become Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord, Deputy Director of the unit at the Ministry of Defence responsible for policy regarding North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union and the United Nations and then Chief of the Strategic Systems Executive.
After that he became Director of Naval Personnel Strategy and then Deputy Commander Naval Striking and Support Forces North Atlantic Treaty Organization before becoming Commander Operations and Rear Admiral, Submarines in March 2011 and in that capacity he was the United Kingdom"s Maritime Commander for operations over Libya (Operation Ellamy) in Spring 2011.
He attended the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in April 2011. He went on to be United Kingdom Military Representative to North Atlantic Treaty Organization in May 2013.
Corder will be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in March 2016 and take up the post in May 2016.