Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet (c. 1589 – 19 January 1628) was MP for

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between

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and 1625 and

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between 1625 and 1626.CORBET, Sir John, 1st Bt. (c.1589-1628), of Sprowston, Norf. in the ''History of Parliament''
/ref> He was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of

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, Norfolk,

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in 1612 and the elder brother of the

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Miles Corbet Miles Corbet (1595–1662) was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and Regicide. Life He was the son of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norfolk and the younger brother of Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, MP for Great Yarmouth from 16 ...

.Sarah Barber, ''Corbett, Miles (1594/5–1662)'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 He graduated as a B.A. at

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in 1612, was later captain of the Norfolk foot militia and a county magistrate for Norfolk. His spent nearly a year imprisoned in

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for refusing to support or pay the forced loan of 1628 in a case called

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. He was released but died of

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shortly after and was buried at

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. He had married Anne Capel (died in about 1625), with whom he had two sons and three daughters. He was succeeded in turn by his sons John and Thomas. The baronetcy became extinct in 1661 on the death of Thomas.

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