[1][2] The eldest son of Francis Corbin and his wife Ann Munford Beverly, was born to the First Families of Virginia.
Another brother, John Sawbridge Corbin (d. 1883) married Mary Blackwell and became a planter in Hanover County, Virginia.
Upon his father's death in 1821, Corbin assumed responsibility for his mother and younger siblings, as well as operated his home plantation using enslaved labor.
[6] Caroline county voters elected Corbin as their representative in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1837, and re-elected him four times.
[8] At some time before or during the American Civil War, the widower Corbin moved to Philadelphia, where he died on April 3, 1868, and was buried in the churchyard of historic St. Peter's Episcopal Church.