The Trust is pleased to have acquired the following items:
- ‘An Englishman in Albania’ by D R Oakley-Hill (#11879)
- A brass shield, much weathered, inscribed to Savage Cobbold, (1769-1839) (#8589) probably originally on his coffin or his tomb at St. Stephen’s Church, Ipswich. The tomb also contains his brother William Andrew(s) (#8590). Savage was the son of William Cobbold (1747-1795) (#59).
- 2 post card pictures of Sybille Olivier (1901-1989) (#755) sister of Sir Lawrence Olivier, gift of Rebekah Panayides.
- ‘Inns of the Suffolk Coast’ by Leonard P Thompson, gift of the Keeper
- ‘Cobbold’s Tales’ by Sue Heaser – the story of Richard Cobbold (1797-18770 (#106), gift of the Keeper.
- 7 books by F E Penny (1847-1939) (#263)
- ‘Church Stretton Illustrated’ by Edgar Sterling Cobbold (1851-1936) (#250), amateur turned professional geologist.
- Country Life Magazine, August 29th 1925 having a picture on the front cover of Lady Blanche Cobbold (1898-1987) (#449) and her daughters, Pamela and Jean.
- ‘Lady Constance Lytton’ ‘Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr’ by Lyndsey Jenkins. Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) (#3712) suffered forced feeding.
- ‘The History of Margaret Catchpole’, a particularly nice copy of Richard Cobbold’s Victorian best-seller.
- 12 Academic Offtakes: 5 by the family of Kitchener, 5 by Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828-1886) (#174), 1 by the family of Chevallier and 1 by Edgar Sterling Cobbold (1851-1936) (#250)
The Trust has made donations to Wikimedia and to the Ipswich Historic Churches Trust, the latter towards the cost of restoration of the carillon at St. Clement’s which was given to the Church in 1882 by Felix Thornley Cobbold (1841-1909) (#201) in memory of his father John Chevallier Cobbold (1797-1882) (#114)