John Corbet (1751–1817) of Sundorne, was an English sportsman of the Shropshire landed gentry and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1775 to 1780.

On the first Monday of November of every year, John Peyto-Verney, 14th Baron Willoughby de Broke of Compton Verney would host a dinner for the club's members at the White Lion to mark the beginning of the hunting season.

[3] In 1810, John Corbet's health began to fail and following the entreaties of his family, he agreed to give away his prized pack of hounds.

His body was returned to Sundorne on 31 May, and on 2 June 1817 he was interred in the family vault in St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield.

It bears the inscription:[3][11] To the Memory of JOHN CORBET, Esquire, of Sundorne who departed this Life on the 19th day of May, 1817, aged 65 years.

He was in the twenty-first degree of lineal descent from Corbet, a Nobleman of Normandy, who accompanied William the First to the Conquest of England; and received an ample donation of lands and manors in the county of Salop, during the reign of that Monarch.

In his own 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.