Corbet baronets of Moreton Corbet (first creation, 1642)

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The Corbet baronetcy, of Moreton Corbet in the County of Shropshire, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 January 1642 for the Royalist Vincent Corbet. [2] Both he (April-May 1640) and the second Baronet sat as Members of Parliament for Shropshire. [2] [3]

The title became extinct on the death of the 3rd Baronet in 1688. [2] There was a second creation in 1828 for a collateral descendant of the 1st Baronet. [4]

Corbet baronets, of Moreton Corbet (1642; first creation)

Notes

  1. Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. J. R. Smith. p. 134.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cokayne, George Edward (1902). Complete Baronetage. Vol. II. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co., Ltd. p. 156.
  3. 1 2 "Corbet, Sir Vincent, 2nd Bt. (c.1642-81), of Moreton Corbet, Salop., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  4. Burke, John Bernard (1852). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Colburn. p. 241.
  5. Debrett, John (1835). Debrett's Baronetage of England: With Alphabetical Lists of Such Baronetcies as Have Merged in the Peerage, Or Have Become Extinct, and Also of the Existing Baronets of Nova Scotia and Ireland. J.G. & F. Rivington. p. 338.
  6. "Monson (Mounson), Sir Robert (c.1574-1638), of North Carlton, Lincs. and Wakefield, Yorks., History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

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