Richard Cobbold
Richard Cobbold | |
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Born | 1797 Ipswich |
Died | (1877-01-05)5 January 1877 |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Caius College, Cambridge |
Period | 1827-1858 |
Genre | Novels |
Richard Cobbold (1797 – 5 January 1877) was a British writer.
Life
Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John (1746–1835) and the poet and writer Elizabeth (née Knipe) Cobbold (1764–1824). The Cobbolds were a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry.[1]
Educated at Caius College, Cambridge,[2] Cobbold entered the church, starting at St Mary-le-Tower in Ipswich before moving to Wortham in 1825 with his wife and three sons. He remained there until his death on 5 January 1877.[3]
Cobbold is best known as the author of the History of Margaret Catchpole, a novel based on the romantic adventures of a woman living in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, in whom Cobbold's father had taken a kindly interest. For the copyright of this book he is said to have received £1,000. However Cobbold did not make much money by his other literary ventures, which were mostly undertaken for charitable purposes. Thus his account of Mary Ann Wellington brought in no less than £600, much of it in small gifts, for the subject of the book, who was afterwards placed in an almshouse by Cobbold's exertions.[3]
Family
In 1822, he married the only daughter of Jeptha Waller, by whom he had three sons.[3] One of the sons, Edward Augustus (born 1825), became vicar of the neighbouring parish of Yaxley, and another Thomas Spencer, a leading parasitologist.[4]
Legacy
During his time at Wortham, more significantly, he recorded the daily lives of his various parishioners, both in words and pictures. His four volumes eventually found a home at the Suffolk Record Office, and have become an invaluable source of information about everyday life in the countryside at that time. In 1977 a book entitled The Biography of a Victorian Village was published, in which Ronald Fletcher presents Richard Cobbold's account of 1860s Wortham.
Work
Cobbold achieved considerable success with his popular historical novels which include:
- The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl (1845)
- Mary Anne Wellington: The Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow (1846)
- Zenon The Martyr: A Record of the Piety, Patience and Persecution of the Early Christian Nobles (1847)
- Freston Tower: A Tale of the Times of Cardinal Wolsey (1850)
- The Young Man's Home (1848)
- JH Stegall, a Real History of a Suffolk Man (1851)
- The Biography Of A Victorian Village – Wortham (1860)
- Cobbold's Wortham - The Portrait of a Victorian Village (2019) Edited by Sue Heaser - Publication of Cobbold's watercolours and notes of Wortham 1860.
Adaptations
- The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl became the 1887 play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger, which formed the basis for the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912)
References
Richard Cobbold
- ^ "Cobbold Family Tree". Cobbold Family History Trust. Retrieved 10 January 2009
- ^ "Cobbold, Richard (CBLT814R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c Watkins 1887.
- ^ Parish, W.D. List of Carthusians, 1800–1879 p.51
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Watkins, Morgan George (1887). "Cobbold, Richard". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 11. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 146–147.
External links
- Works by Richard Cobbold at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Richard Cobbold at the Internet Archive
- Richard Cobbold: The Character of Woman[permanent dead link], London 1848, PDF
- "Archival material relating to Richard Cobbold". UK National Archives.
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Thomas Cobbold brewer (1680–1752) | Mary Woodthorpe (died 1758) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thomas Cobbold (1708–1767) | Sarah Cobbold (1717–1777) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Isabella Garrett (died 1777) | William Cobbold (1747–1795) | Elizabeth Wilkinson (1753–1790) | John Cobbold (1746–1835) | Elizabeth Knipe novelist and poet (1765–1824) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Anne Trapnell (1781–1810) | Thomas Cobbold (1772–1835) | Harriet Temple Chevallier (1775–1851) | John Wilkinson Cobbold (1774–1860) | Richard Cobbold novelist and priest (1797–1877) | Mary Anne Waller (1801–1876) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mary Anne Cobbold (1806–1868) | Francis Cobbold priest (1803–1844) | John Chevallier Cobbold brewer, railway developer and politician (1797–1882) | Lucy Patteson (1800–1879) | Thomas Spencer Cobbold scientist (1828–1886) | Edward Augustus Cobbold priest (1825–1900) | Mathilda Caroline Smith (1826–1923) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charles Chevallier priest and canon (1823–1885) | Isobella Frances Cobbold (1834–1917) | John Patteson Cobbold politician (1831–1875) | Adela Harriette Dupuis (1837–1917) | Nathanael Fromanteel Cobbold (1839–1886) | Caroline Ellen Boutell (1843–1882) | William Nevill "Nuts" Cobbold footballer (1863–1922) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maj. Ernest St George Cobbold (1840–1895) | Helen Emma Cazenove (1842–1917) | Thomas Clement Cobbold diplomat (1833–1883) | Felix Thornley Cobbold barrister and politician (1841–1909) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Barrington Chevallier (1857–1940) | Isabel Amy Cobbold (1869–1931) | John Dupuis Cobbold (1861–1929) | Lady Evelyn Murray later Zainab Cobbold (1867–1963) | Ralph Patteson Cobbold British Army soldier and writer (1869–1965) | Clement John Cobbold (1882–1961) | Stella Willoughby Cameron (1882–1918) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lady Blanche Katharine Cavendish (1898–1987) | John Murray Cobbold (1897–1944) | Pamela Cobbold (1900–1932) | Charles Jocelyn Hambro merchant banker and intelligence officer (1897–1963) | Lady Margaret Hermione Lytton (1905–2004) | Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (1904–1987) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Cavendish Cobbold businessman (1927–1983) | Patrick Mark Cobbold businessman (1934–1994) | Charles Eric "Charlie" Hambro, Baron Hambro (1930–2002) | David Antony Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold (1937–2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 1962) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Cobbold Family History Trust