Richard Cobbold
Richard Cobbold (1797–1877) was a British writer.
[edit] Life
Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John Cobbold (1745-1835) and Elizabeth (née Knipe) (1764-1824), a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry.[1] Their name lives on in Ipswich in the firm of Tolly Cobbold to this day.
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 in 1877. One of the sons, Edward Augustus (b. 1825), became vicar of the neighbouring parish of Yaxley, and another Thomas Spencer, a leading parasitologist.[3]
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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
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Wikisource has original works written by or about: Richard Cobbold |
- ^ "Cobbold Family Tree". Cobbold Family History Trust. Retrieved 10 January 2009
- ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds (1922–1958). "Cobbold, Richard". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Parish, W.D. List of Carthusians, 1800-1879 p.51
[edit] External links
- Richard Cobbold: The Character of Woman, London 1848, PDF
- Archival material relating to Richard Cobbold listed at the UK National Register of Archives
