page_title: Robert Corbet (died 1676)
section_title: Family tree
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Corbet (died 1676) / Background, education and early life / Family tree
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Francis Ottley and his family. Wife: Lucy. Children: Richard and Mary. Sir Francis was the royalist military governor of Shrewsbury at the beginning of the English Civil War. Photographic reproduction of an engraving made c.1825 from a 1636 oil painting by Petrus Troueil, from a work published pre-1923. The original oil painting, previously in private hands, was purchased by Shrewsbury Museums Service in 1993/94 with assistance from The National Art Collections Fund, the V&amp;A Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of Shrewsbury's Borough Museums.
context_page_description: Robert Corbet was an English politician who supported Parliament in the English Civil War. He was a member of the Shropshire county committee, responsible for pursuing the war against the royalists and represented Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He is particularly known as the employer and mentor of Richard Gough, author of the Antiquities and Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, a pioneering work of ethnographic literature, in which he is mentioned repeatedly.
context_section_description: Corbet's relationship to other politically important Shropshire Corbets, particularly those of the Civil war period, is illustrated in the family tree below.
caption: Sir Francis Ottley, royalist military governor of Shrewsbury at the beginning of the English Civil War, with his wife, Lucy, and children, Richard and Mary. From a portrait by Petrus Troueil, 1636.
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