Clement Corbet (c. 1576 – 1652) was an English jurist.

Life

He was the sixth son of Sir Miles Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk, who was high sheriff of that county in 1591, by Katherine, daughter of Sir Christopher Heydon.''Dictionary of National Biography''; :s:Corbet, Clement (DNB00). He was admitted a scholar of

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

, on 7 December 1592, took the degree of LL.B. in 1598, was elected a fellow of his college on 10 December the same year, and was created LL.D. in 1605. In May 1607 he was chosen Professor of Law at Gresham College, London, and he occupied that chair till November 1613. On the death of John Cowell he was elected to succeed him in the mastership of Trinity Hall, on 12 October 1611, being at that time chancellor of the

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. On 9 May 1612 he was admitted a member of the College of Advocates at

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. He was vice-chancellor of Cambridge in 1613-14. In 1626 he was appointed vicar-general and principal official to the

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, and the following year he resigned the mastership of Trinity Hall. He died on 28 May 1652, and was buried in the chancel of

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church, Norfolk, where a monument, with a Latin inscription, was erected to his memory. By his wife Elizabeth Kemp, he had one son, Samuel, and five daughters. The portrait of him which was kept in the Master's Lodge at Trinity Hall was a bequest from Thomas Baker.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Corbet, Clement 1570s births 1652 deaths English legal professionals Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 17th-century English lawyers 16th-century English educators Members of Doctors' Commons Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Professors of Gresham College Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge