His name honors his grandfather, Richard Corbin who had been a member of the Virginia Governor's Council before the American Revolutionary War, and who died when this boy was a teenager.
During his childhood, his father had been imprisoned for Loyalist activities, but posted a bond and agreed to stay on his Caroline County properties until the conflict ended.
James Parke Corbin (1809-1868), who thus became this man's principal heir, married twice, moved to Caroline County where he built Moss Neck plantation and survived the American Civil War.
[11][12] He died at Laneville, which was inherited by his son James Parke Corbin, who lived there until it burned in 1843, but chose not to rebuild the showpiece.
Another grandson, Spottswood Wellford Corbin (1835-1897) became a Confederate naval officer and after being paroled, became a major farmer in King George County and member of the state board of agriculture.
His youngest full brother, James Parke Corbin Jr. (1847-1904) while a student at the Virginia Military Institute fought at the Battle of New Market, and later became a prominent freemason as well as clerk of the court in Fredericksburg.