Richard Corbet (1582 - 1635), poet, son of a gardener, was educated at Westminster School and Oxford, and entered the Church, in which he obtained many preferments, and rose to be Bishop successively of Oxford and Norwich.

He was celebrated for his wit, which not seldom passed into buffoonery. His poems, which are often mere doggerel, were not published until after his death. They include Journey to France , Iter Boreale , the account of a tour from Oxford to Newark, and the Farewell to the Fairies .