Category: features

Last months 155th Boat Race reminds me of Robert Henry Cobbold (1820-1893) who is, I think, the only Cobbold to have rowed in the annual Oxford & Cambridge encounter on the Thames.

This magnificent Thomas Gainsborough painting (oil on canvas 29” x 24”) hangs in Gainsborough’s birthplace Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk.

This is the title of an enthralling and absorbing biography, recently added to the Trusts collection, written in 1991 with great sensitivity and in meticulous detail by his son, Paul.

A section of this website is devoted to Family Name and Crests. Ancestors Magazine published in April 2004 an article which used as an example some research which had included the name Cobbold. The relevant part of that article is reproduced below with thanks to Ancestors Magazine.

Lightning struck on 17th July 1852 and destroyed the spire of St. Mary's, a rare Suffolk church built between 1439 and 1451 which amongst many fine features boasts a spectacular Perpendicular south porch and a superb medieval brass lectern.

W N (Nutts) Cobbold (1863-1922), 3rd son of the Rev Edward Augustus Cobbold and Mathilda Adelaide Smith was born in 1863 and played his earliest football in Long Melford.

The Trust has been fortunate to acquire a mint copy of the Ipswich New Town Hall Polka composed and dedicated by permission to Mrs J Patteson Cobbold (Mayoress), by William Godball.

This is the first of the two Elizabeths who married John Cobbold (1745-1835) about whom much less is known than of her more famous successor.

Mayfair socialite, aristocratic owner of an estate in the Scottish Highlands, and accomplished deerstalker and angler, Lady Evelyn cut an elegant if eccentric figure on her frequent travels in the Arab world The story is told more fully in the PDF.

John Patteson Cobbold JP MP (1831-1875) was our 6th generation brewer, a lawyer, an Alderman and a former Mayor of Ipswich who stood as a Conservative for the Borough of Ipswich in 1874.