CORBET, Sir RICHARD (1640 - 1683), baronet and member of parliament
Date of birth: 1640
Date of death: 1683
Spouse: Victoria Corbet (née Uvedale)
Parent: Edward Corbet
Gender: Male
Occupation: baronet and member of parliament
Area of activity: Land Ownership; Politics, Government and Political Movements; Royalty and Society
Author: Robert Thomas Jenkins
One of the CORBET family of Leighton, Montgomery, a son of EDWARD CORBET (who died before his father in 1653), and grandson of Sir EDWARD CORBET, the first baronet. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1658. He was Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1677-81 and chairman of the elections committee. He was a close friend of Lord William Russell whose execution in 1683 may have hastened Sir Richard's death. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society but this was in the period when the majority of Fellows were elected on social or political grounds. He married Victoria, daughter of Sir William Uvedale in 1663 and they had nine children. She died in 1679 and Sir Richard on 1 August 1683.
Author
- Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, (1881 - 1969)
- Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford
- Collections Historical and Archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, 1880, 345; 1892, 242
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Q7528562
Further Reading
- Wikidata: _2nd_Baronet
Additional Links
Published date: 2001
Article Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
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