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John Corbett (bapt. 29 June 1817 – 22 April 1901) was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician of the Victorian era. He is particularly associated with the salt industry in Stoke Prior and Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire. Locally he was nicknamed The Salt King.
John Corbett was born at Brierley Hill in the Black Country in 1817 and baptised at St. Michael’s Church, Brierley Hill on June 29th 1817. He left school aged 11 to work for his father’s canal boat business.
Jun 1, 2017 · John Corbett found employment at the Stoke Prior Salt Works near Droitwich. He began as an engine driver, before working as an outrider, and finally as a cashier. Corbett was learning the salt business at all levels.
Jan 7, 2011 · For John Corbett, salt was not simply one of the essentials of life, but the key to one of the greatest fortunes imaginable. The people of Droitwich, Corbett’s adopted home, have much cause to be grateful to the man they called “the King of Salt”.
Jan 21, 2010 · In the 19th century John Corbett, the son of a black country barge owner, transformed the exploitation of the brine at Droitwich into an industrial operation - making a fortune in process. He...
Jun 24, 2015 · It was Brierley Hill-born John Corbett, known as the ‘salt king’, who would dramatically turn the enterprise around after he took over in 1852.
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Mar 31, 2003 · John Corbett died at the Chateau Impney in 1901 at the age of 84. In this week of 1902, the Journal published his will which involved money and property to the gross value then of...
