1

CORBET GENERATIONS

HUGO LE CORBET 1066 7

1 or LE CORBEAU 8 Battle of Hastings. 0 d 1 n 4 a

l William, Duke of Normandy, 6 Left Normandy for England in 1070 with g 6 n crowned King of England. E 0

his two sons, Roger and Robert, under the f 1

o 1067-onwards: William I

command of Roger de Montgomery to g

M was suppressing rebellions crush Saxon and Welsh rebellion against n i A K

in England, Wales, France the Normans, and control the Welsh border. I t L s

r and by his son in Normandy. i L F I W 0

0 1085 1 1

4 Domesday Book.

2 7

8 1087-onwards: William II 0

1st Son 2nd Son 3rd Son 4th Son 1 was suppressing rebellions I I HUGO ROGER RENAUD ROBERT in England, Wales and by M his uncle and brother A

CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET I in Normandy. L L

ob.s.p. 1063 Received the tenancy of ob. 1124 Domesday Baron of Longden and Alcester I many manors and the W 1095 3a Castle of Caus The First Crusade.

5 1100 William II killed, (previously Alretone), ROBERT HEnRy i x SYBELL = Herbert FitzHerbert ancestor ALICE = William Botterell ancestor 3 1 possibly on the order 1 listed in the CORBET 4 of his brother Henry. King of England CORBET of Earls of Pembroke CORBET of Earls of Huntingdon 0 0

Domesday Book 1085 ob. c.1140 s.p. 1 1101-1106 Invasions by

1100-1135 1

E I T Henry’s brother Robert T N

E E K

ob. circa 1134 O B B O T Y of Normandy to take the R R R G B O O R N C C I

M throne of England.

T E D N D N P N N

E F U A A O H

S F H M O

R S A M R 4a There is possibly a further A generation here: HUGH

CORBET = Alexander i, King of Scotland. Son of King Malcolm REGinALD DE DunSTAnviLLE SyBiLLE 4

et al. 5 1135 (in Shakespeare’s Macbeth) and St. Margaret (Atheling) 1 Earl of Cornwall. illegitimate son ob.s.p 1122 1

4 1136-1153 “The Anarchy” 5

of King Henry ob. 1175 of Wessex . Brother of Maud, wife of Henry i. ob.1124 3 Civil War in England and 1

1 Normandy between

N followers of Stephen

3 E and of Matilda H

WILLIAM = ….. EVERARD SIMON ROGER = heiress of Tasley ROBERT P E T

CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET S

of Wattlesborough, ob. s.p. ob. s.p. lord of Tasley, Fought for Matilda in the war with her 9 8 1

2nd Baron of Caus, 1

ob. 1175 cousin Stephen for the throne of England. 4 4

progenitor of the Corbets 5 In 1114 joined Henry I’s Founder of the branch of Corbets in Scotland 1 1168 attack on Gwynedd and Powys. 1 of Moreton Corbet I I

Founding of Campaigned in Wales Y Oxford University. R

N 1170 Thomas Becket, 4 E Archbishop of Canterbury ROGER = Avicia or H murdered. WILLIAM = Dyonisia de Boeville, WALTER SIMON = ….. 9 9

CORBET Hawisa de Albini, 1 1189 Saladin attacks CORBET ob. s.p CORBET CORBET 1 4 Jerusalem. 9

3rd Baron of Caus, ob. s.p. Knt., ob. s.p. (Priest), ob. s.p of Pontesbury 8 1 Third Crusade intended to ob. s.p. circa 1165 1 I reopen the pilgrim routes

Campaigned in Wales D to Jerusalem . R

A 1191-1194 Richard I

5 H abroad on crusade. C I

THOMAS = ..... ROBERT = Emma, dau. A D au. = Jorwerth WILLIAM WALTER HUGH ROGER = Hawisa Ffoliot, R

CORBET CORBET of Pantolph father of CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET heiress of 6 1204 1 2

the Pilgrim 1 Loss of Normandy. 4th Baron of Caus, of Wem, etc. Llewellyn the (Priest), Recluse of (Priest of (Knt.), Chaddesley, 4 9

progenitor of 9 ob .1222 progenitor of Great, Prince ob. s.p. Ratlinghope, Worthen), of Chaddesley, ob. s.p. ob. s.p. 1 1209 Corbets of 1 the Corbetts of Longnor of Gwynedd ob. s.p. ob. s.p. 1245 Among the Barons who forced N King John excommunicated Moreton Corbet King John to sign Magna Carta 1215. H by the Pope. O 6 J 1215

RICHARD =..... ROGER THOMAS = isabel de HUGH =..... ROBERT = ida SIR WILLIAM =..... MARGARET = Gwenwynwyn Magna Carta signed. 2 7

CORBET CORBET CORBET valletort CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET ap Owain 2 1 4

(Knt.) of Wattlesborough, 5th Baron of (Knt.) (Knt.) (Knt.) prince of Powis 6 1227 (Knt.), ob. s.p. 1

2 Death of Genghis Khan. Joined Bartholomew Toret (circa) 1204 Caus ob.1274 of Chetton of Chaddesley ob. 1216 1 I

in hostility to King John. I Supported Magna Carta. I ob. s.p. ob.1254 Ruled South Powys 1195-1216

Made grant to Refused to pay feudal dues to Henry III. Y

Sometimes an ally R Buildwas Abbey 1223. Arrogated to himself the judical power of the King. 1265 of King John against N E Simon de Montfort’s Llewellyn the Great. = H Parliament. 7 RICHARD = Joanna, ROGER PETER 1Alice le Wafrenupt ROGER 1265 Birth of Dante: CORBET co-heir of her father, CORBET CORBET 2Joan CORBET Beginnings of the (Knt.) of Wattlesborough, Bartholomew Toret, ob. s.p. 6th Baron of Chaddesley, Italian renaissance. d. before 1235 of Moreton Toret, Salop Delivered in 1233 of Caus ob.1300 ob. 1289 as a hostage The castle keep was Living 1217 and 1221-2 to King Henry III . Fought in the battle of built in this time. Discontented with Henry III Falkirk in a great victory 1216 & 1272 and in league against Wallace 1298. JOHN WILLIAM

with the Welsh. Edward I 1272-1307 gave 7

CORBET

CORBET 0 T T T E E

E him the job of killing the 3 R B R 1 R O O

wolves in the Welsh Marches. Last Baron of Caus, (Knt.) of Chaddesley Corbet 4 T O T

C 2 F D

F O N 7 1282 O

S Served with Robert Corbet A Loved hunting. 2

S died before M 1 R M in the Welsh campaigns of R A Conquest of North Wales I A

1347 ob.s.p. Edward I in 1277,1282, 1294-5. by Edward I. D

R 1295 Model Parliament. A

Succeeded his RICHARD = Petronilla, Lady of W 1297-8 Battles of Stirling grandfather, D and Falkirk in Scotland. E 8 Bartholomew Toret. CORBET Edgebaldenham & Booley William Wallace defeated. (Knt.) of Wattlesborough Living 1272. ob.1255

ROBERT = 1Catherine, dau. RICHARD = Amelia …, PETRONILLA = omas de la Lee 9 CORBET of Sir John Strange, of Knocking CORBET Living 1296. CORBET (Knt.) (Knt.) of Wattlesborough 2Matilda of Arundel, of of Mailhurst, & Moreton Toret ob.1300 Tildershall & Habberley, ob. 1309 ob. 1267 1306

Robert Bruce crowned E T 7 E Of full age in 1255. G B 2 King of Scotland. N

R RICHARD SIR REGNOLD A 3

Bur. chapel at Alberb O ury built by him. R 1 C T 1314 Battle of 4 F S

O 7

Border warrior often disobeying Henry III. D CORBET DE LA LEE S

N Bannockburn 0 M A 3 R

In 1277, 1282,1294-5 he served in the A (Knt.), Templar Benefactor of 1 1326 Edward II is deposed

Welsh campaigns of Edward I 1272-1307. St. Leonard’s, Bridgenorth. I

I by his wife Isabella who

Supported de Montfort’s rebellion against orders his murder. MP for Shropshire 1290 and 1295. Henry III which led to Henry III signing the D Provisions of Oxford 1258 R A and led to the First Parliament 1265. W

Bur. in Malvern Abbey. D 10 E THOMAS FULK JOHN Living 1296. CORBET CORBET CORBET

(Knt.), (Priest) ob.s.p., 7 7

b. 1281, ob.1310 Resigned rectorship of Ightfield 1323, 3 1 1337 made Canon of Lichfield. 4 7

2 Beginning of the 3

1 Hundred Years War.

ROBERT = Elizabeth, dau. of Fulk Strange, I I

I Battles of Sluys (1340) CORBET Seneschal of Duchy of Acquitaine & Crecy (1346) Corbet 11 D

R presence at Crecy. E T E G (Knt.) of Wattlesborough & A B N (1347) Capture of Calais. R A W O R C T Moreton Toret, b. 1304, ob. 1375 D

F 1346-1353 Black Death. S

O

D E S

N Estimated to have killed M 1332 pilgrimage to Santiago. A R

A about 60 percent of Europe.

Castle gatehouse and South Aisle of 9 9 1356 Battle of Poitiers. Moreton Corbet church built by Robert. 3 1 4

Fought at the battle of Crécy 1346 and at the siege 7 7

of Calais under King Edward III 1327-1377. 3

1 1381 I I 12 Peasants’ Revolt. D 1380 John Wycliffe R

FULK = Elizabeth ROGER = Margaret, dau. of JOAN = Robert ELEANOR = Brian de Harley, A starts translating the

H New Testament into English:

CORBET CORBET Sir Giles de Eardington, CORBET de Harley CORBET ancestor of C

I the beginnings of the ob. 1388 of Moreton (now) Corbet & of Shawbury, ob. 1395 ob. s.p Earls of Oxford R English Protestant

Reformation.

Shawbury, died probably 1394 3

1 T N 4 E O B 1 T 1400

= Elizabeth R THOMAS 4 G O 9 N C I

9 F Death of Chaucer, author D

CORBET or Amice O

R 3 S A

= Ed. Le Strange (Knt.), 1 of Canterbury Tales . M E AMICE

R D A

(Knt.), V N I A lord of Mudle CORBET 1403 ob. circa 1359 Y R Battle of Shrewsbury. N

ROBERT = Margaret, dau. of E One of many rebellions

H against Henry IV.

13 CORBET William Mallory (Knt.)

2

T Y 2 E R 4 B (Knt.), of Moreton Corbet, O R L 1 L O 4 A C

3 F M

Sheriff 1419, ob. 1440 O 1

D 1415 S 4 N M A 1 R

A Battle of Agincourt. V

Y Church of Rome burns

R Jan Hus, church reformer, N as a heretic. E H

1 1 THOMAS = Ancareta ROGER = Elizabeth Hopton, JULIANA = John Sandford MARY = Robert Charlton 5?6KATHERINE = Robert Onslow 6 4 1 CORBET des Barres CORBET heiress of or ANNA (Knt.) of Sandford, CORBET of Apley, co. Salop CORBET of Onslow 4 14 2 2 1445 (Knt.) of (Knt.) of Moreton Hopton Castle CORBET co. Salop, b. 1415, b. 1415, 4 1 Invention of printing in 2 I

Moreton Corbet, Corbet, ob. 1468 Sir Hugh Peshall ob. 1471 ob. 1492 V

Guttenberg, Germany. Y

ob. s. p. 1436 Knighthood of the Bath R 1452 Leonardo da Vinci born.

= Philip Kynastone,

DOROTHY N T N

E 1453 End of O E B T R P Walford, co. Salop

CORBET H Hundred Years War. O O C

H

F D O

3 1453 Fall of N S 8 A M R 4 Constantinople to Islam. A 1 4 1455 Start of the Wars of 1

6 the Roses, ended1485. 4 1 V I 15 1475 D

= omas Sturry = Richard Cholomley = Elizabeth, dau. of R Birth of Michelangelo.

ANNA ELIZABETH RICHARD 5?63 rd SON A

CORBET of Rossall CORBET (Knt.) of Cheshire CORBET Sir Walter Devereux, W 1476 William Caxton D starts printing in London. (Knt.) of Moreton Corbet, 7th Baron Ferrers of Chartley E V

3

) 8 b.1451, ob.1493 Descended from King Edward I d D 4 e r 1 R e Died 1485 at the battle of Bosworth ROGER CORBETS of 4

JANA d 1436, 1439 subdued rebels A = omas ornes 3 MARIA r

supporting Richard III 1483-5. 8 u

in Northumberland. W CORBET NORFOLK 4

CORBET m 1 T ( X CORBET D E 1485 fought for the U B Including E E ob. s.p. R R E O

future Henry VII at MILES CORBET I C V

I

E F I O D 5

the battle of Bosworth.

the Regicide who was S D 8 M N D 4 R 1492 fought in France. A executed at Tyburn gallows A R 1 4

on 19 April 1662. A

3 1485 8 H 4

C Richard III killed at battle 1 I of Bosworth Field. R

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CONTINUED FROM PANEL ONE RICHARD CORBET ob.1493 9 0 5 1 4 5 8 4 1

1492 I I

16 V Columbus crosses

Y the Atlantic.

5?6KATHERINE = omas Onslow ROBERT = Elizabeth, dau. of ANNA = Sir omas Cornewall ELIZA MARGARET = Sir Richard Clive R N

CORBET (Knt.)of Rodington, CORBET Henry vernon (Knt.) CORBET of Burford (Knt.) CORBET CORBET of Walford E co. Salop (Knt.),b. 1481 of Tong & Haddon Hall, ob. 1548 H co. Derby, b. c.1481 MARIA GEORGE

Sheriff of Salop 7 4

ob. 1563, CORBET CORBET 5

1507, ob. 1514, 1 4

Descended from Talbots, ob. s.p. 9

Buried Moreton Corbet. 0

Earls of Shrewsbury 5 (?) Accompanied Henry VIII to France in 1512. Buried Moreton Corbet. Richard 1 Edmond I 1516

I T I N E O

B Cornewall Cornewall V Rafael Perestrello lands

N R R Y O E

C in Guangzhou exploring

V

ob. 1508 R F D O trade between Portugal N N S A M E

R and China. A H 1517 Luther’s 95 theses. 1536-1540 Dissolution

17 of the Monasteries. 3 5 5

= Anne, dau. of = Margaret, dau. = Alice dau. of John Gratewood = Richard 1

MARIA ROGER RICHARD REGINALD DOROTHEA 4 7

Andrew Lord of John Sayville of Adderley, & co-heir Mainwaring 4 CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET 5 1

(Knt.) of Windsor, Sheriff 1561 (Knt.) Lawyer in of Sir Roland Hill, (Knt.) of I V Received monastic of Stoke, etc. m. 1546 ightfield 1549 Moreton Corbet, ob. s.p. 1566 Middle Temple, Judge, D

land in Shropshire R

First Prayer Book ob. 9th April 1603, A E T L b. 1501 ob. 1538 and Buckinghamshire E Recorder of Shrewsbury,

Purchased L W

B in English. I R V Buried Stoke-on-Tern.

Buried at Lynceslade, D O

Acton Reynald. Y

Buried at Lynceslade, C MP etc, ob.1566,

A E F JANE Bucks 1551. S ANNE or = omas newport O From these there descended

Bucks 1538. Courtier. D S N Buried Stoke-on-Tern. M A T

R the Corbets of Adderley until 1823. Imprisoned R E (Knt.) of High Ercall

CORBET O JOANNA A B S R

D in the tower by O N C I

CORBET

F Queen Mary for W O Corbets of Stoke and Adderley D S his religion. N M A R A Buried Moreton Corbet 1566.

8 5 5 1

18 4 3 Return to Catholicism. 5

ANDREW = Jane, dau. of ROBERT = Jane, REGINALD ROGER MARGARET =Frances ELIZABETH =vincent Curzon 5 1

CORBET Robert needham CORBET co-heir of CORBET CORBET CORBET Palmes CORBET (Knt.) of Y Three hundred protestants R (Knt.) of Moreton Corbet, (Knt.) of of Stanwardine omas ob. s.p. ob. s.p. (Knt.) of of Stanwardine Water-perry, A burnt alive as heretics. M b.1516 Sheinton or Buried at Kynastone yorkshire Oxon Baschurch 1593. Served in the Scottish wars 1547 & 1560. Shavington, Buried at Baschurch 1588 JEROME = Dorothy, dau. Withstood threats from Catholicism of ob. 1577 Queen Mary. Many acts of public service. CORBET of os Poyner FRANCIS Sheriff 1551, Ld. Lieutenant Buried Moreton of Bestloe CORBET WALTER Corbet 1598. 1569, ob.1578 Corbets of 3 ob. s.p. 0

6 T

M CORBET 1563 E Stanwardine 1 A B 4

Finished the Gatehouse and started H R 8 D O Died in London Thirty-nine articles of religion. E 5 C

the Manor House at Moreton. E F 5 N

O of the plague.

1 1564 Birth of Shakespeare D S

Kinsman of Sir Henry Sidney, N M I

A R 1583 s.p. who was father of Sir Philip Sidney. A 1572 The St Bartholomew’s H Eve massacre. T E 1577 Francis Drake sails B

19 A round the world. Z I 1587 Execution of 1 L ROBERT = Anne, dau. RICHARD = Mary Wolfe, VINCENT = Frances Humfreston MARGARET = omas Harley E Mary Queen of Scots. CORBET of Oliver, CORBET 2Judith, dau. of CORBET of Humfreston CORBET of Brampton Brian, 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada. ob. 1616 co. Hereford 1600 East India Company Traveller & Diplomat for Lord St John of Moreton Corbet, omas Astine (Knt.), b.1552 Founded. Queen Elizabeth . b. 1542 of Bletsoe Knt. Of the Bath, of Oxley Attended Shrewsbury school and Cambridge University. Lawyer Died plague 1583. m.1578 Sheriff, = Sir Walter Leveson First of the name, of Moreton Corbet. ANNA MARIE 5 Buried Moreton Corbet. T 2 ob. s.p. 1606 N of Lilleshall E CORBET CORBET O

6 1605

Succeeded brother Richard. B Attended Cambridge University, Lawyer. T 1 R S 4 E O C R 3 Guy Fawkes and at Moreton Corbet Built a new house at

He continued the Manor House at Moreton. F F 0 O M

6 the Gunpowder Plot.

Acton Reynald, as well as S U E

He designed and started building the T 1 M H E N R I I D Commissioned B further work on the A

Founding of the State of

South Range of the Castle. T N R S A S O

the Corbet Bed. A South Range of the Castle.

C Virginia in North America.

E F D O N

A M S Bur. 1623 Moreton Corbet. 1611 Authorised Version of M A R J A the Bible (King James Version). 1618-1648 20 Thirty Years War in Europe. MARGARET= 1omas Corbet ANDREW = Elizabeth, dau. ROBERT = Bridget, co-heir MARIA = Richard Hussie CORBET of Stanwardine CORBET of William Boothby CORBET of Sir James Price CORBET (Knt.) of Albright Hussie 2omas Scriven (Knt.) of Moreton Corbet, of Delfehous, of ynysymaengwyn 1620 of Frodesley m. 1616 b. 1580, ob. 1638. b. 1590, &Humfreston Pilgrim Fathers sail to America on the First Royalist wounded in Made home at Acton Reynald. ob. 1656-7 Mayflower. an attack on Wem. Died 1644.

Corbets of ynysymaengwyn T Y E B B H R T O O C

O F B

O

D S N M A 9 R A 4 6 1 4 5 2 6 1 I 1642- 1649 S

21 E English Civil War. ANNA = Pelham Corbet FRANCES MARGARET MARY ANDREW WALTER WILLIAM HENRY JANE L R 1649 Execution of Charles I. CORBET (Knt.) of Leigh & CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET A H

b. 1609 Albright Hussie b. 1620 ob. s. p. ob. s. p. 1698 C m. 1623 Royalist captured ob. s. p. when Shrewsbury fell to Parliamentarians 1645 ARTHUR = Sarah Lyttleton T T E E 1652 H B B CORBET ob. 1695 R R BEATRICE = Francis ornes T O O

L First Anglo-Dutch war. C C

D A M CORBET of Shelvock b.1625, Bur. Moreton Corbet N A E A

H L 3 E m. 1659, W

Royalist, fined by 5

P VINCENT = Sarah, dau.

F 6 N O

Parliament for 1 S 4 CORBET of Sir R Manson (Royalist) ob. 1690 O M 9

R supporting the King. M 4 A

(Knt.), Royalist, of Carleton, Lincs. created Bur. Moreton Corbet 6 M 1

created Baronet viscountess for life 1678 O England ruled by C

ALICE = Onslow Parliament and of Moreton Corbet, b. 1624, ob. 1682 E ‘New Model Army’. CORBET H b. 1617, ob. 1656 RICHARD = Grace noel, T

Barrister at Lincoln’s Inn 1637. CORBET of Kirkby Mallory E

Fought in the Civil War for Charles I. of Shawbury Park T A R

Garisoned Moreton Corbet, & Moreton Corbet, O 0 6 family lived at Acton Reynald. T 6

b. 1624, ob.1691 C 1 4 He was heavily fined by Parliament for E 3 T

supporting the king: £2822 plus £80 per year. 5 6 O 1 R

P

L T E E E O B R N H O

22a D C

N T F A O

S 5 M

VINCENT = Elizabeth, dau. of Francis MARY =os. Estcourt RACHEL SARAH = Phineas DIANA 8 R 6 A 1660 1 CORBET ornes of Shelvock, CORBET (Knt.) b. 1645, CORBET CORBET Fowke CORBET 4

0 Restoration of the monarchy.

6

S T b. 1654, ob. 1706 ob. 1702 6 Death and disinterment of E 2nd Baronet of E 1 B N

R regicides. (inc. Miles Corbet) R I O I O

Moreton Corbet, C

H ROBERT

S T

F 1665-1666 Plague and

O D

E S b. 1643, ob. 1681 N Great Fire of London. L

A CORBET M ELIZABETH =Robert Bolles (Knt.), R R A Barrister at Lincoln’s Inn Repaired some of Moreton CORBET of Scampton A

Corbet castle c. 1667. ob. s. p.1686 H 1679 MP for Shropshire with C 23a Lord Newport’s son Richard BEATRICE = John Kynaston

VINCENT 8 T N 8 E

CORBET O 6 B

T 1685

CORBET R S 1 4 O A C

N b. 1668, 5 Monmouth rebellion and the D Y

3rd Baronet of Moreton Corbet, 8 N K 6

A Bloody Assize conducted by F 1

ob.1703 O

b. 1670, ob. s. p. S I Judge Jeffreys of Wem. M I

R A 1688 at Oxford University Christchurch college.. S 1688 James II flees A strong Jacobite. Accused of supporting the 1715 rebellion. E to Europe.

Baronetcy extinct. Moreton Corbet passed Corbet Kynaston M

on his death to his sister Beatrice. A b.1689, ob. s. p. 1740 Died with £77,000 debts. Land including Moreton Corbet and Acton Reynald J put up for sale. Purchased by Andrew Corbet of Shawbury Park 1748.

22 2 0

ROBERT HENRY ELIZABETH = omas Hill GRACE = John Taylor RICHARD = Judith dau. of 7 1 1689 4

CORBET CORBET of Soulton CORBET of Roddington CORBET Sir John Bridgeman 8 CORBET 8 The Bill of Rights. 6 1 L ob. s. p. ob. s. p. T of Moreton Corbet, (Knt), of Castle Bromwich 1692 Massacre of Glencoe. L E Y I B H

R R D

O Officer in the Guards, ob. 1701 A N C

A F M O

ob. 1718, S M D R A

1696 permitted to add to Moreton Corbet church N A

a burying place for his family.Placed memorial to his father

in Moreton Corbet church. Bur. Moreton Corbet. M

A T N I E A B L M R L E O I G C

D F I O W

R S B M D R N A A 4 1 7 1

4 1702- 1713 2

0 War of the 7

23 1 Spanish Succession. E

ANDREW = Frances dau. of VINCENT RICHARD GEORGE JUDITH N 1707 Act of Union between N England and Scotland. CORBET Captain William Prince, CORBET CORBET CORBET CORBET A 7

of Moreton Corbet of Adcot, ob. 1760 Rector of Stanton Major of Cavalry, of Great Withyford, ob.1776 2 7 1715 1 & Shawbury Park, & Moreton Corbet 4 ob. s. p. ob. s. p. 4 Jacobite rising in Scotland 1

M.P., ob. 1757 7 defeated at Sheriffmuir. 1 I

1721 Robert Walpole becomes E T E C Purchased Moreton Corbet 1748, E B N first British Prime Minister. G R Y R with his son Andrew. O R C P

F D O O

N S E A M R G A 1729 0

6 Charles Wesley founds 7 1

4 the Methodist movement. 7

24 2 1739 Dick Turpin 7

1 highwayman hanged at York = Mary dau. ELIZABETH = Washington Cotes, CATHERINE = Rev William Clarke, FRANCES I RICHARD I 1740-1748 War of PRINCE CORBET and heiress of CORBET Dean of Lismore CORBET Rector of Moreton Corbet CORBET E

G Austrian succession of High Hatton John Wickstead, R 1757-1763 Seven Year’s War O

E against France.

of Wem. ob. 1813 G ANDREW JUDITH CHARLOTTE 1757 Battle of Plassey in

T D which Robert Clive from E A B CORBET E CORBET CORBET R T Market Drayton leading forces S O K C

C of the East India Company took “e Old Squire” of Moreton Corbet F I O

W S control of Bengal in India. M D R

& Shawbury Park, N A A 0

M.P., ob. s. p. 1796 2 1760 8 1

4 The age of Industrial 0

6 Revolution begins. 7

1 1766 Pitt the Elder becomes I

25 I

I Prime Minister.

JUDITH MARY = Moreton Aglionby Slaney SIR ANDREW = Mary, dau. of RICHARD E 1769 James Cook’s first voyage G

CORBET CORBET of Shifnal CORBET omas Taylor, CORBET R to the Pacific and Australia. O

died an infant ob. 1818 of Moreton Corbet 1st Bart of Lymme Hall, Cheshire. died an infant E 1773 The world’s first G Iron bridge constructed Moreton Corbet (re-creation), b. 1776, b. 1770, m. 1790, in Coalbrookdale.

T Y E E Sheriff for Shropshire 1798, ob. 1852 1775 American War B N R A of Independence. L O S C created Baronet 1808, ob.1835 F D O

N 1789 Outbreak of

S A F L T M L E

O French Revolution. R

Family seat Acton Reynald. A B A R H R

O O E L 1793 Carey “father of modern C

Commissioned plans to restore Moreton Corbet castle, but instead Y M F A M O T mission” sails for India. Y

developed Acton Reynald Hall where he moved in around 1800. S L D M N R 1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars. A Master of the Warwickshire hounds 1790-1812. A Commissioned paintings of the castle by Thomas Girtin. 1807 The Slave Trade Act, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire. 1815 Battle of Waterloo, final defeat of Napoleon.

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CONTINUED FROM PANEL TWO SIR ANDREW CORBET ob.1835

0 1822 3 8

1 English mathematician 4

0 Charles Babbage invents the 26 2 8 world's first ‘computer’. 1 V

SIR ANDREW = Rachel Steavens, dau. VINCENT = Maria Humberston RICHARD = Eleanor, dau. I

JUDITH E 1823 VINCENT Col. John Hill, CORBET ROGER CORBET Rev. Croxton Johnson, G R Invention of Rugby Football. CORBET of Hardwick, ob. 1829 CORBET succeeded to estates of Rector of Wilmslow, O E 1829 Stephenson’s steam 2nd Bart. b. 1799, Corbets of Adderley & Stoke Cheshire. b. 1804, G locomotive ‘Rocket’ enters of Moreton Corbet, m. 1820, b. 16-5-1804, ob. 1885 service. b. 1800, ob. 1855 ob. 1875 ob. 25-1-1877

T N L T E L E Bur. Adderley. O I B S B R H

N R O D O 7 H C

N His descendants later (in 1953) C O

3 F A J F O 8

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succeeded to the estates of D S S 1 N M 4 M A R

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N CORBET A Huddlestone and ob. s.p. 1855 A A First Opium War I T Y Andreyev. E E L R B Died in Marseille returning R

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C S D ‘The Penny Black’ issued. I N M R A V A 1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine causing an estimated one million deaths. 1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws. 28a 1854-1856 Crimean War. SIR WALTER = Caroline ALICE = G. F. Rowley MABEL JUDITH = Rev. Henry vernon GERTRUDE 1857-1858 Indian Mutiny. 1859 Charles Darwin publishes ORLANDO Douglas NINA of Morcott Hall, CORBET ELIZABETH Heber Percy URSULA the Origin of the Species. CORBET Stewart CORBET Rutland CORBET CORBET 1861-1865 American Civil War. 4th Bart. of Only child of b.1863 1879 Zulu War. BEATRICE Moreton Corbet James Stewart ob.1948 1899-1902 Boer War. of St Fort, Fife, CORBET b.1856, ob.1910 Capt 11th Hussars. Owsley Richard b. 1861, b.1886 b.1887 ob. 1926 T T CONSTANCE = Sir Richard E R B A SYBELL R W

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VINCENT ob.1930 A CORBET Gerald Vincent lived at Preston Hall. b.1868, Acton Reynald hall was leased to a school. succeeded as On Gerald’s death, the baronetcy and land at Dick Sutton Moreton Corbet passed to Sir John Corbet. b.1891 6th Bart.1915, 0 1 9 1

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1 First trans-Atlantic I I radio transmission by V 29a Guglielmo Marconi. 1 D VINCENT SIR ROLAND LESBIA = victor Mylius R A

STEWART JAMES 5PETRA6 2Sir Charles Lambe W 1903 D CORBET CORBET CORBET (Admiral of the Fleet) E First manned and controlled aircraft flight made by Wilbur b.1890 ob. s.p. b. 1892 b. 1905 and Orville Wright. Eton College 1903. succeeded his father as 5th Bart. Died of appendicitis aged 13. of Moreton Corbet 1910 The chancel of Moreton Corbet church is a Killed in France 1915 in the First World War. memorial to him designed by Ninian Comper. He is depicted in the window over the altar, kneeling at the feet of St. Vincent. 27 HENRY = Anna dau. of REV = 1Julia Helen, dau. of Sir Archer ROWLAND = Christine, dau. RACHEL REGINALD Sir Philip ATHELSTAN Denman Croft; b. 1840, m. 1866, WILLIAM of Alfken of FRANCIS CORBET Grey-Egerton CORBET d. 1885. 8th Bart. of Croft Castle CORBET Oldenburg CORBET of Adderley Hall, ob.1927 Rector of Adderley and descendant of Owen Glendower Rector of m. 1884, 2 6 3

JP, DL, High Sheriff 1892 b. 16-2-1837 Octavia, dau. of Octavius Browne Stoke-on-Tern ob. 1919 9 1 4 19 12 of Courtlands, m. 1887 b. 1839, 0 ob. 4th May 1902 ob. 27-4-1926 1 9 Loss of the S.S. Titanic. EDWIN RICHARD ob. 1919 MARY = Gen. Bruce CLARA 1 T T T

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G Irish Independence. N A bear the surname Russian revolution. Corbet-Milward Six daughters 1918 End of First World War. 1918 Representation of the 28 People Act passed, allowing REGINALD = Hon. Katherine Russell, BERTRAM = Rosamund Women over 30 to vote. 1919 Spanish Flu kills CORBET 2nd dau. of Lord de CORBET Withington 50 million people (“young Reggie”) of Adderley Hall. Clifford b.1891, d.1950 around the world. b.1857,d.1950 T D

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Inherited Adderley shortly before his death. Fought in the Boer War, R invade Poland. O 1940 British army evacuates South Africa 1899-1902 E

incl. the relief of Mafeking. G from beaches at Dunkirk. 29 1941 Japanese attack SIR JOHN = 1 American fleet at Pearl Harbour. Elfrida Frances. m. 1937 HELEN = John Dennis Russell America enters war. CORBET 2Doreen Stewart CORBET b.1911 Kuala Lumpur, 1942 British victory b. 1911, in North Africa. 3Annie Elizabeth Lorimer (later Russell), ob. 19-1-1973 succeeded Gerald vincent Corbet as 1944 D-Day landings by b.19th April 1913, ob. Commander in Royal Navy 1939-45, protecting British Army on 7th Bart. of Moreton Corbet 1955, 22nd January 2005 convoys and planning the D-Day landings 1944 etc. Normandy Beaches. Chartered Accountant. High Sheriff 1966, ob. s. p. 1993 Bur. Moreton Corbet 1945 Victory in Europe Rear Commodore of Royal Yacht Squadron. and 1946 Victory over Japan. Royal Engineer in India (NW Frontier) 1935, 1950-1953 Korean War. Burma, Malaya in Second World War 1939-45. Inherited Corbet land at Adderley and Acton Reynald. 1946-1960 Britain’s colonial rule ceases, bringing conflicts 30 Independent County Counciller worldwide e.g. the Suez crisis Church Assembly and General Synod 1960-1976. Georgina = Sir Robert Craufurd, CHRISTOPHER = Leila, dau. of and the Malayan Emergency. b.1947 9th Bart. of Kilbernie CORBET Major Charles John Richard Errington

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5 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing 9 Head of the Craufurd Family. Took Surname and Arms of Corbet Major Errington served with the Royal Scots 1 Norgay climb Mount Everest. I I

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S I M L R Reader licenced in 2004 to preach 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes A in Moreton Corbet church E the first human to step on the moon. 31 1982 Falklands War. 1989 End of Cold War. CATRIONA = Daniel George RICHARD = Petronella dau. of ALICE = Edward Lees-Millais Break up of Soviet Union. CORBET b. 1974 CORBET Robin Watson ELLA b. 1982 1991 Fall of the Berlin Wall. b.1980, m. 2005 b.1981, m.2012 of Trebinshun, CORBET Ordained priest 22nd June 2019 1997 Hong Kong reverts to China. Living in New Zealand. Chartered Accountant and Land Agent. Brecon b. 1985 b.1983, m. 2010 Evangelist. Received Corbet lands at Acton Reynald Teacher. 2003 and Moreton Corbet March 2020. Evangelist. Iraq War against 32 Saddam Hussein. 2016 UK votes to leave Peter Andrew James Timothy BEATRICE ARCHER JOHN PATRICK Hugh Eloise John the EU and leaves in 2020. b. 2007 b. 2008 b. 20 11 b. 2016 CORBET FERDINAND CORBET b. 2013 b. 2015 b. 2017 2020 Coronavirus pandemic spreads worldwide from China. b. 2014 CORBET b. 2020 b. 2017

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