The d'Avenant Family Crest

Corbet d'Avenant was the son of Anne Corbet, daughter of Sir Robert Corbet (c.1670-1740) 4th Bt of Stoke upon Tern. Upon the death of Anne's brother, rector of Adderley from 1735, Sir Henry Corbet, the seventh baronet, on 7 May 1750, the baronetcy became extinct and the family estates passed to his nephew, Corbet D'Avenant, who assumed the name of Corbet, and was created a baronet on 27 June 1786. Upon his death, on 31 March 1823, the second baronetcy also became extinct. His estates were left to Richard, second son of Sir Andrew Corbet of Acton Reynald. Sir Corbet Corbet's wife was Hester Salusbury Cotton (d 1822) dau of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, 4th Bart of Combermere (d.1775) and Elizabeth (d.1777) dau of Rowland Cotton of Etwall. Corbet d'Avenant's portrait, painted by George Romney in 1783, passed thorugh the saleroom (Bloomsbury Book Auction, USA) in 2009. Genealogical information courtesy of the Bookplate Society.

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d'Avenant

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An Arm Embowed Vested And Holding In The Hand A Wreath Of Olives.

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