Sir Robert Corbet, 4th Baronet

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Sir Robert Corbet, 4th Baronet (c.1670 – 3 October 1740) was an English Member of Parliament and official in the Royal Household.^[1]

He was born the only surviving son of Sir John Corbet, 3rd Bt. of the Corbet baronets of Stoke upon Tern, Shropshire and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and the Inner Temple (1688). He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1695.

He was pricked High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1700–01 and was then elected to Parliament in 1705 to represent the county of Shropshire until 1710. He was reelected for Shropshire again in 1715, sitting until 1722. He was a loyal Whig and was rewarded for his party loyalty with the position of Clerk of the Green Cloth in the Royal household, a position he held, progressing from Third Clerk to First Clerk, until 1735.

In that year he gave up the position in the Royal household to make way for a current Member of Parliament and was made instead a Commissioner of Customs until his death.

He died in 1740. He had married Jane, the daughter of William Hooker, with whom he had 3 sons and 3 daughters. The baronetcy passed to his eldest son Sir William Corbet, 5th Baronet.

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