The trust is full of admiration for Peter Ernest Cobbold (born 1932) who married his Jamaican-born first wife, Joyce in Portsmouth in February 1957. They had three sons, Stefan, Peter and Nicholas and the family emigrated from Jamaica to Canada in 1974. All three sons are now married and Peter has ‘retired’ with Jan Shilletto to South Shore, Nova Scotia where she is at the centre of the arts community and where Peter is the Founder and President Emeritus of the Athenaeum Society of Nova Scotia. The society, named after its British eponym, meets monthly so that its members can enjoy the huge reservoir of retired expert and professorial talent that lives nearby. Typically presentations last 45-60 minutes and afterwards attendees have a chance to talk further with eminent speakers over coffee and cookies. What a wonderfully civilised arrangement!
Our picture shows Peter, on the right, with Richard (Dick) Temple Chevallier Cobbold (#111) from Ottawa who visited in 2009
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