Sir Robert Corbet, 4th Baronet

Sir Robert Corbet, 4th Baronet (c. 1670 – 3 October 1740), of Stoke, Shropshire, was an English Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1722, and was an official in the Royal Household.

[1] He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 6 July 1687, aged 17[2] and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1688.

[1] Corbet was appointed High Sheriff of Shropshire for 1700–01 and was then elected to Parliament at the 1705 English general election to represent the county of Shropshire until 1710.

[3] 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.

The baronetcy passed to his eldest son Sir William Corbet, 5th Baronet.