Felix Cobbold

British banker, barrister, and politician

Felix Cobbold

Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 Ipswich – 6 December 1909)[1] was a British banker, barrister and Liberal Party politician. He was a member of the Ipswich Cobbold brewing family but not a brewer himself.

## Life

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Felix was born in Holywells Mansion, Ipswich. He was the son of John Cobbold, Member of Parliament for Ipswich, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Henry Patteson (sometime Rector of Drinkstone and of Wortham, Suffolk). John Cobbold, Thomas Cobbold and Nathaniel Cobbold, grandfather of Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold, were his elder brothers. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and returned to the college as a senior fellow in 1871, serving as the estates bursar until 1876.[2] Cobbold also sat as member of parliament for Stowmarket in Suffolk between 1885 and 1886, and for Ipswich between 1906 and his death. Although he opposed Irish Home Rule originally, he returned to the Liberal Party as an advanced Radical. In 1895 he presented Christchurch Mansion to the town of Ipswich as part of an arrangement to preserve the mansion and surrounding Christchurch Park from development.[3] He also bequeathed Gippeswyk Park to Ipswich. Cobbold died in December 1909, aged 68.

## See also

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* Baron Cobbold

## References

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1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "I"". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 31 December 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
2. ^ "Cobbold, Felix Thornley (CBLT861FT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. ^ The man who saved the mansion, Steven Russell, 15 October 2009

## Further reading

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Clive Hodges: Cobbold & Kin: Life Stories from an East Anglian Family (Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2014) ISBN 9781843839545

## External links

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* Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Felix Cobbold

Parliament of the United Kingdom

New constituency |  Member of Parliament for Stowmarket
1885–1886 | Succeeded by

Edward Greene

Preceded by

Charles Dalrymple
Daniel Ford Goddard

|  Member of Parliament for Ipswich
1906– 6 December 1909 (death)
With:  Daniel Ford Goddard  | Succeeded by

Daniel Ford Goddard
Silvester Horne

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Cobbold family tree

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brewer
(1680–1752)| | Mary Woodthorpe
(died 1758)|

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(1708–1767)| | Sarah Cobbold
(1717–1777)|

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| | | | | Isabella Garrett
(died 1777)| | William Cobbold
(1747–1795)| | | | Elizabeth Wilkinson
(1753–1790)| | John Cobbold
(1746–1835)| | Elizabeth Knipe
novelist and poet
(1765–1824)
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| | 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)|
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| | | | 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)|
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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)|
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| | | | | | | | 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)| | | | | | |

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| | | | 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)|
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| | | | | | | 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)|
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| | | | | | | 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)| |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold,
3rd Baron Cobbold
(born 1962)| |

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