Frederick Arthur Cobb (11 February 1901 – 27 March 1950) was a
radio engineer
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and
Labour Party politician
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in the
United Kingdom
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.
He was the son of a farmer and joined the
merchant navy as a
radio operator
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while still a youth, during the
First World War
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. He later became a maintenance engineer in the
2LO station which later became the
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. In 1926 he became chief engineer of the
, where he remained for three years before becoming the general manager of a firm in
. When this seat was abolished for the
which covered much of the same area. He died just over a month later, aged 49, making the government's slender majority even more precarious until the party held the seat a