page_title: Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke upon Tern
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet, of Stoke upon Tern / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Reginald Corbet (born by 1513; died 1566), of Stoke upon Tern, Shropshire, England, a prominent English judge of the mid-Tudor period.
context_page_description: Sir John Corbet, 1st Baronet of Stoke upon Tern was an English politician who represented Shropshire in the House of Commons of the long Parliament. A moderate Puritan, he was noted before the English Civil War for his campaigns against extra-parliamentary taxation, which led to his imprisonment, and for waging a long running dispute over control of his parish church at Adderley. He was a notable member of the Shropshire county committee, responsible for pursuing the war against the royalists. Part of a Presbyterian middle group in Parliament, he was one of those secluded from parliament by Pride's Purge, and was stripped of his remaining public offices after the Restoration.
context_section_description: John Corbet's background was in the landed gentry of Shropshire, a county which had no resident aristocracy in the 16th century. Both his parents were drawn from sections of the Protestant gentry enriched by the law, commerce, and contacts at Court. They were:
  Richard Corbet of Stoke upon Tern and Adderley, Shropshire. The Stoke and Adderley branch of the Corbet family was descended from the Corbets of Moreton Corbet Castle, Shropshire. It was founded by the important judge, Reginald Corbet (c.1513-1566), Richard's father and John's grandfather. Reginald had secured the material prosperity of his family not only through his legal practice but by marrying a niece and heiress of the immensely wealthy businessman Rowland Hill (MP), the first Protestant Lord Mayor of London. The major family holdings in north Shropshire all came from Hill's bequest.
  Anne Bromley, daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, who was from Hodnet, also the birthplace of Rowland Hill. Bromley was another distinguished lawyer, Lord Chancellor from 1579 to 1587, who presided over the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots. He became very rich and bought large estates in Montgomeryshire and Worcestershire, as well as in his native county.
  The family tree below shows Sir John Corbet's immediate ancestry and relationship to other Corbet family members of political importance from the English Reformation to the Civil War.
caption: Reginald Corbet of Stoke upon Tern (died 1566), a prominent English judge of the mid-Tudor period and Sir John Corbet's paternal grandfather.
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