Corbet Kynaston (28 January 1690 – 17 June 1740), of Hordley, Shropshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1714 and 1740.
[1] At the 1713 British general election he stood for Shrewsbury, with the support of his father, who headed a strong Tory interest in the borough.
In September 1715 he was one of six MPs ordered to be arrested on a charge of having been involved in a plot related to a Jacobite invasion attempt.
He stood for Shrewsbury again in 1727 when he was defeated by Sir John Astley, a fellow Tory who had been awarded £24,000 damages against him in a lawsuit over transactions in South Sea stock.
Corbet left debts of between £70-80,000, suits from his creditors leading to an Act of Parliament being passed to enable his estates to be sold.