CORBET, RICHARD (1582-1635), English bishop and poet, was born in 1582 at Ewell, Surrey, and died at Norwich on July 28 1635. At Oxford, to which he proceeded from West minster school in 1597, he was noted as a wit. In 1628 he was made bishop of Oxford, and in 1632 was translated to the see of Norwich. Corbet's verses were first collected and published in 1647. He was a boon companion in his early days of Ben Jonson, who always remained his close friend.