Robert Corbet (died 1676)

Robert Corbet (died April 1676) was an English politician who supported Parliament in the English Civil War. He was a member of the Shropshire county committee, responsible for pursuing the war against the royalists and represented Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He is particularly known as the employer and mentor of Richard Gough, author of the Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, a pioneering work of ethnographic literature, in which he is mentioned repeatedly.

Stanwardine Hall, Shropshire: the home of Robert Corbet and his family. From a drawing of 1901.[1]
Stanwardine Hall today. After its sale by the second Thomas Corbet it became a farmhouse.
  1. ^ Leighton, Stanley (1901): Shropshire houses past & present