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Cobbold And Co
Cobbold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (1904–1987), Governor of the Bank of England * David Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold (born 1937), British peer * Elizabeth Cobbold (1765–1824), British writer and poet * Lady Evelyn Cobbold (1867–1963), Scottish noblewoman and convert to Islam * Felix Cobbold (1841–1909), British barrister and Liberal Party politician * Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (1905–2004), wife of Cameron Cobbold * Humphrey Cobbold (born 1964), British businessman * John Cobbold (other), people who share that name * Nevill Cobbold (1862–1922), footballer * Ralph Cobbold (1869–1965), British soldier and writer * Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), British writer * Thomas Cobbold (other), people who share that name * William Cobbold (composer) (1560–1639), English renaissance composer See also * Cobbold family tree, showing the relationship between many of the above * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold
Cameron Fromanteel "Kim" Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (14 September 1904 – 1 November 1987) was a British banker. He served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1949 to 1961 and as Lord Chamberlain from 1963 to 1971. Early life Born in London in 1904 to Clement John Fromanteel Cobbold and his wife Stella Willoughby Savile Cameron, Cobbold was educated at Eton College. He also spent one year at King's College, Cambridge. Career Bank of England Cobbold joined the Bank of England at the invitation of bank Governor of the Bank of England, Governor Montagu Norman, 1st Baron Norman, Montagu Norman in 1933. He was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Deputy Governor in 1945 and became governor in 1949. During his tenure he was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Privy Council (1959) and was created Baron Cobbold, of Knebworth in the Hertfordshire, County of Hertford (1960). He retired as governor in 1961. Cobbold Commission He subsequently led the Cobbol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold
David Antony Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold, (14 July 1937 – 9 May 2022) was a British hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords. Early life He was born David Antony Fromanteel Cobbold, the elder son of Cameron Fromanteel "Kim" Cobbold (who would be created 1st Baron Cobbold in 1960) and Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton. He changed his surname to "Lytton-Cobbold" by deed poll on 10 January 1961. He was a member of the Lytton family ( Earls of Lytton) through his mother. In keeping with family tradition, Cobbold was educated at Eton and read Moral Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge. Banking career David Cobbold was an executive in the International Banking Department of Bank of London and South America (BOLSA) in the late 1960s, under Edward Clifton-Brown. BOLSA was one of the first banks in the Eurodollar market, developed by Sir George Bolton, Chairman of BOLSA. He was increasingly drawn into the management of Knebworth House, for public events, so he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cobbold
Elizabeth Cobbold or Carolina Petty Pasty born Elizabeth Knipe (1767–17 October, 1824) was a British writer and poet. Life Cobbold was born Elizabeth Knipe in Watling Street, London in 1767 to Robert Knipe. Her mother's maiden name was Waller. She was baptised in the now lost church of St Olave Silver Streetd. Laetitia Jermyn 1825. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobbold, Elizabeth 1767 births 1824 deaths Writers from London British women poets 18th-century British poets 19th-century British poets British women novelists 18th-century British novelists 19th-century British novelists 18th-century British women writers 18th-century British writers 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers Elizabeth Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (sch ... 18th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Evelyn Cobbold
Zainab Cobbold (born Lady Evelyn Murray; 17 July 1867 – January 1963) was a Scottish diarist, traveller and noblewoman who was known for her conversion to Islam in the Victorian era. Biography Born in Edinburgh in 1867, she was the eldest daughter of Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore and Lady Gertrude Coke, daughter of the Second Earl of Leicester.Facey, William (2008) "Mayfair to Makkah" ''Saudi Aramco World'', Vol. 59, No. 5, pages 18–23. She married John Dupuis Cobbold in All Saints' Church Cairo, Egypt on 23 April 1891. Following a party in May 1891, at the Cobbold family home Holywells, Ipswich, they settled there. Here the couple had three children between 1893 and 1900: Winifred Evelyn (1892–1965), Ivan Cobbold (1897–1944), and Pamela Cobbold (1900–1932). However, in 1922 she separated from her husband. Subsequently she lived in London and on the Glencarron Estate. Childhood Cobbold spent much of her childhood in Algiers and Cairo in the company o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Cobbold
Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 Ipswich – 6 December 1909) 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 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 later became a senior fellow of this college. 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 arrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold
Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (born Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton; 31 August 1905 – 27 October 2004), known as Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton until 1930, was the British matriarch of Knebworth House and wife of Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold. Born in 1905 to Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton and Pamela Frances Audrey Chichele-Plowden, during her father's tenure as acting Viceroy of India she became Vicereine, her mother who would have held that role, being in England. It was while she was in India that she met and married (in 1930), to Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, future Baron Cobbold. She inherited Knebworth House following the death of her father in 1947; both her brothers predeceased their father. Hermione Cobbold was an energetic supporter of many charities and local organizations such as the YMCA. She died in Hertfordshire at the age of 99, survived by her daughter and two sons. Her elder daughter had died in 1937. References Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Cobbold
Humphrey Michael Cobbold (born Nairobi, Kenya 1964) is the current Chief Executive Officer of Pure Gym which is the UK’s largest Gym operator. He joined the business in 2015 when there were 84 gyms, growing the business to over 200 facilities in 2018. He oversaw the sale of the business for the founder (Peter Roberts) and investors from CCMP to Leonard Green & Partners in November 2017 for over £600m. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Wiggle Ltd - a UK-based online retailer of cycling and triathlon related products. He is a former chairman of Fish4, a British recruitment website, as well as the Director of Strategic Development and Executive Committee member of Trinity Mirror. Prior to joining Fish4 and Trinity Mirror, he was a partner and the co-head of the UK media practice for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the University of Cambridge and holds an MBA from INSEAD. Cobbold was taught in secondary school by prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cobbold (other)
John Cobbold may refer to: *John Cobbold (1746–1835), brewer, banker, merchant * John Cobbold (1774–1860), brewer, banker, merchant, son of the above *John Cobbold (1797–1882), brewer and MP for Ipswich, son of the above *John Cobbold (1831–1875), MP for Ipswich, son of the above *John Cobbold (businessman) John Cavendish Cobbold (30 June 1927 – 13 September 1983) nicknamed "Johnny," was an English businessman and a grandson of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire. He chaired Ipswich Town F.C. from 1957 to 1976. Early life Cobbold and his bro ... (1927–1983), English businessman, chairman of Ipswich Town F.C., 1957–1976 See also * Cobbold family tree, showing the relationship between the above {{hndis, name=Cobbold, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevill Cobbold
William Nevill Cobbold (4 February 1863 – 8 April 1922), familiarly known as Nevill or "Nuts" Cobbold, was one of the leading footballers of the Victorian era and on several occasions a member of the England national football team. As late as 1922, at the time of his death, he could be described as "the most famous association football forward of all time", and certainly – in the words of his ''Times'' obituary – "the most individually brilliant dribbler, the player who could most often put in those thrusts that no skill could parry". Early life and education Nevill was born in Long Melford, England, the son of a vicar, Edward Augustus Cobbold of the Cobbold family. "Nuts" was educated at Charterhouse School, one of the great nurseries of the association game, and Jesus College, Cambridge. As well as playing for the village team, he represented Cambridge University, Old Carthusians, and the Corinthians. While at university, Cobbold played in four consecutive varsity matc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Cobbold
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbold, later Ralph Patteson Sawle, (10 February 1869 – 5 December 1965) was a British soldier and writer, who served in the 60th Rifles in India. Career Ralph Cobbold was born in Ipswich, the second son of the Ipswich MP John Patteson Cobbold.'Col Ralph Cobbold-Sawle', ''The Times'', 8 December 1965. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 17 October 1888, and promoted to lieutenant on 1 October 1890. He explored the Pamirs in 1897–1898. His report on Russian plans to occupy Chitral was an important episode in the Great Game between the Russian and British empires. In his 1900 book about his travels through the Pamirs, Cobbold wrote " “My original object in visiting the Pamir region of Central Asia was that of a sportsman, and I had no idea of either troubling myself with inquiries into the social and political conditions of the people", but in actuality Cobbold was an agent in the British government a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cobbold
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. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, 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. 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 ''Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cobbold (other)
Thomas Cobbold may refer to: *Thomas Cobbold (1680–1752), brewer and founder of the Cobbold brewing business in Harwich *Thomas Cobbold (1708–1767), brewer and founder of the Cliff Brewery in 1746 *Thomas Cobbold (diplomat) (Thomas Clement Cobbold) (1833–1883), MP for Ipswich *Thomas Spencer Cobbold Thomas Spencer Cobbold FRS (26 May 182810 March 1886) was an English biologist. Life He was born at Ipswich, the third son of Rev. Richard Cobbold, author of the ''History of Margaret Catchpole''. After graduating in medicine at the Univers ... (1828–1886), English man of science See also * Cobbold family tree, showing the relationship between the above {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobbold, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
