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Author: Cobbold, Edward

Biography:

COBBOLD, Edward (1798-1860: ancestry.co.uk)

He was one of seven children born to Elizabeth Clarke (born Knipe) (q.v.) and her second husband, John Cobbold, a brewer in Ipswich. John Cobbold had fourteen (or fifteen) children from his first marriage. Richard Cobbold was a brother and Robert Henry Cobbold was a nephew (qq.v.). No record of his birth has been located but he was eighteen when he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 6 Nov. 1816. He received his BA (1820) and MA (1823) from St. Alban Hall, Oxford, and was ordained deacon in 1822 and priest in 1824. He served as a curate in Blaxhall, Suffolk, before being made rector in Watlington, Norfolk, in 1824. He married Louisa Plestow in St. Marylebone, London, on 15 June 1824; they had at least three daughters and a son. Cobbold became rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, in 1830 (the living was in the gift of his father who had purchased the estate of Holywells in Suffolk) but he had financial problems; he fell into debt and at some point he and Louisa began living apart. After dinner on the night of 27 Sept. 1860 he killed himself by cutting his throat in a room in Hatchett’s hotel (also known as Thomas’s) at 67-68 Piccadilly, London. An inquest was held and gave a verdict of temporary insanity; it was reported on at length in newspapers. Louisa, who was living in Portman Square, London, inherited effects of under £450 when his will was proved on 13 Nov. 1860. Cobbold was buried in the Brompton cemetery. His other publications are An Appeal to Humanity. A Sermon on Behalf of the Starving Population of Ireland (1831) and The Georgics of Virgil in Blank Verse (1852). (ancestry.co.uk 16 Jan. 2024; CCEd 15 Jan. 2024; Alumni Oxonienses; Norfolk News 6 Oct. 1860; Cobbold Family History Trust at cobboldfht.com 16 Jan. 2024)

 

 

Books written (2):

Long Melford/ London/ Dorking/ Ipswich/ Bury: T. Lorking/ H. Wix/ H. Wix/ H. Wix/ Thompson, 1833