Author: Cobbold, Elizabeth
Biography:
COBBOLD, Elizabeth formerly KNIPE formerly CLARKE (1765-1824: ancestry.co.uk)
pseudonym Carolina Petty Pasty
She was born in London on 3 Feb. 1765 to Robert Knipe and Alice (Waller) Knipe; they had married at St. Lawrence Jewry church in London on 20 Apr. 1758. Elizabeth was baptised in St. Olave's, London, on 6 Mar. 1765. She subsequently lived in Ipswich, Manchester, and Liverpool. She began writing poetry at an early age. On 16 Nov. 1790 she married a much older man, William Clarke of Ipswich, who died just months later. As Eliza Clarke she published a two-volume novel, The Sword, in 1791 and in Aug. of the same year she married a wealthy brewer, John Cobbold. He was a widower with fourteen children; together the couple had seven more children but only four lived to adulthood. Despite the demands of her domestic life, Cobbold maintained a lively interest in drama, charity works, and in natural history. In addition to her books of poetry, she contributed articles to various periodicals. She died in Ipswich on 17 Oct. 1824 and is commemorated by a memorial in St. Mary-le-Tower church. Her date of birth is sometimes given as 1767, but the ancestry.co.uk records are conclusive. Two of her sons, Edward and Richard Cobbold, and a grandson, Robert Henry Cobbold, are also in this database. A grandson, Charles Cobbold Farr (1851-1914), emigrated to Canada where he founded the town of Haileybury in Temiskaming. (ancestry.co.uk 3 Oct 2018, 16 Jan. 2024; RPW; Poems by Mrs Elizabeth Cobbold, with a memoir of the author [1825])
Other Names:
- Eliza Knipe