Thomas Grosvenor Corbin (13 August 1820 – December 17, 1901) was a career United States Navy officer descended from the First Families of Virginia who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.

His father's family could trace their descent to Henry Corbyn, who with his descendants (many of whom had served in the House of Burgesses and Virginia Governor's Council) patented vast acreage on the Rappahannock River watershed.

Corbin's father, who was studying in England during the American Revolutionary War, returned to Middlesex County and was elected to represent that county in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, but lost three attempts to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives - perhaps due to his uncles' Loyalist connections during the American Revolutionary War.

The plantation grew to 3700 acres and included 70 enslaved persons, although his father also wrote to his friend James Madison of his misgivings concerning slavery and desire to move to a New England state without it.

His eldest brother, Robert Beverley Corbin (died 1868), inherited the Reeds plantation and probably began to raise him, marrying his first wife, a woman from Philadelphia, in 1822.

He commanded the steamer USS Augusta from 1864 to 1865 and was fleet captain of the West India Squadron enforcing the Union blockade from 1865 to 1866.

[9] Corbin died at his nephew's house in Philadelphia on December 17, 1901, and his remains were returned to Virginia for burial at Hollywood cemetery in Richmond.

[11][12] Complications ensued when the state of Alabama filed documents affecting the share of one of his heirs at law, Francis Corbin Randolph, who had been an elected Alabama probate judge who disappeared, possibly to become a soldier of fortune in a South American conflict between Columbia and Venezuela, whereupon the accounts of monies for liquor licenses were audited and $25,000 seemingly embezzled.