According to his obituary by the British Association for Applied Linguistics, he left the British Council in 1961, when he began teaching at Leeds University.[1] However, according to his biography in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was seconded to Leeds by the British Council, and only left the organisation in 1964 when he became director of the school of applied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.[2] Corder stayed at the University of Edinburgh for the rest of his professional life.[6] Corder established a Lectureship and Department of Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh in 1964.[7]