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country Mr Corbet will not only be lamented by a numerous tenantry, to whom he was the best of landlords, but also by a large circle of friends and acquaintance, to whom his hospitable doors were always open. To the poor he was a liberal and unceasing benefactor; and, in every sense of the word, he may truly be said to have kept up the character of the independent country gentleman, firmly attached to our glorious
Constitution in Church and State, and always anxiously wishing his powerful interest in the borough of Shrewsbury to tend to its support.
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Mr Corbet was a gentleman well known beyond the precincts of his own county, particularly in
Warwickshire, where, at his sole expense, he kept a pack of fox hounds for nearly 30 years and where, by his liberal and gentlemanly conduct, he conciliated the respect and esteem of all ranks. In his own
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Upon the death of
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surrounded by his family, having suffered a brain hemorrhage the previous day. His body was returned to
Sundorne on 31 May, and on 2 June 1817 he was interred in the family vault in
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being a favourite hound from which most of the hunt's hounds descended. During the hunting season, the pack was kept at the White Lion, and in the summer it returned to
Sundorne.
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William Corbet, born 1801, who succeeded his father to Sundorne Estate in 1817. Andrew married Mary Emma Hill in 1823 and died without children in 1856.
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Sundorne was within several miles of Shrewsbury, which gave him an interest in the constituency. On 17 March 1775, following the death of
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would host a dinner for the club's members at the White Lion to mark the beginning of the hunting season. Other staunch supporters of the hunt included
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John Corbet married twice and had ten children from the two marriages. His first wife was Emma Elizabeth Leighton, daughter of
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in 1841. Arrabella succeeded her brother Dryden to Sundorne Estate in 1859 and died without children in 1864.
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in Shrewsbury, he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the Shropshire Militia and in 1793 he was
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The History of Parliament, "Corbet, John (1751-1817), of Sundorne, nr. Shrewsbury, Salop",
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Corbet, Sir Robert Leighton and John Kynaston with their horses and hounds.
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John Corbet's mother, Barbara Letitia Mytton, daughter of John Mytton of
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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Collections historical and archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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who departed this Life on the 19th day of May, 1817, aged 65 years.
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John Kynaston Corbet, born 1790, who died aged 15 on 22 April 1806.
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This Monument is erected by his second Wife, ANNE, daughter of the
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In the same vault are deposited the remains of his first Wife,
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who accompanied William the First to the Conquest of England;
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With his second wife Anne, Corbet had another five children:
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and throughout Shropshire. In 1775 he was Treasurer of the
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Kynaston Corbet, born 1808, who died unmarried in May 1859.
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and received an ample donation of lands and manors in the
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Vincent Corbet, born 1806, who died unmarried in 1843.
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Chetwynd, as a Tribute of the Gratitude and Affection
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from his brother Andrew, who died unmarried in 1741.
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Morris Charles Jones, "The feudal barons of Powys",
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The Corbett one name study, "End of a Line Part 2",
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Reverend William Pigott, A.M. Rector of Edgemond and
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Who died the 23rd day of April, 1806, aged 15 years.
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He was in the twenty-first degree of lineal descent
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668:History of sport in Britain: 1880-1914
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332:Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
32:Corbet with his famous hound, Trojan
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442:On 19 May 1817 John Corbet died at
419:Sir Theodore Brinckman, 1st Baronet
397:Louisa Corbet, who died in infancy.
340:Henry Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick
313:White Lion Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon
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384:Sir Charlton Leighton, 3rd Baronet
336:Thomas Scott, 2nd Earl of Clonmell
190:, was an English sportsman of the
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406:Jane Elizabeth Corbet, born 1790.
392:Sir Richard Puleston, 1st Baronet
867:Masters of foxhounds in England
453:A gothic monument, designed by
519:An obituary to John Corbet in
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877:High sheriffs of Shropshire
780:Parliament of Great Britain
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303:and in 1791 he founded the
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841:Categories
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687:"T.B.J.",
596:Wikisource
547:References
301:fox hunter
277:Shrewsbury
269:Lord Clive
254:Shrewsbury
192:Shropshire
74:Occupation
491:of Loton,
455:Hugh Owen
215:William I
165:Annabella
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535:See also
444:Mudeford
394:in 1798.
366:county.
188:Sundorne
174:Kynaston
141:Children
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230:Halston
217:in his
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