Corbet Kynaston

Corbet Kynaston (28 January 1690 – 17 June 1740), of Hordley, Shropshire, was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1714 and 1740. His Jacobite sympathies resulted in his fleeing abroad to avoid arrest.

Early life Kynaston was the eldest son of John Kynaston and his first wife Beatrice Corbet (died 1703), daughter of Sir Vincent Corbet, 2nd Baronet, of Moreton Corbet, Shropshire. He was admitted at Inner Temple in 1720.

In 1710, Kynaston was one of the leading figures in the procession that accompanied Dr Sacheverell into Shrewsbury. At about the same time he inherited, through his mother, various estates in Shropshire.

Death and legacy Kynaston died unmarried on 17 June 1740, aged 50, His estates went to his half-brother Edward Kynaston. Corbet left debts of between £70,000 and £80000,000, suits from his creditors leading to an act of Parliament, the Corbet Kynaston's Estate Act 1747 (21 Geo. 2. c. 22 , being passed to enable his estates to be sold. His Shrewsbury town mansion, Broom Hall, was acquired for conversion into the Salop Infirmary hospital founded in 1745.