John Patteson Cobbold (12 July 1831 – 10 December 1875)
was a
Conservative Party
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politician in
England
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.
The scion of a long-established prominent family in
Ipswich
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,
Suffolk
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, Cobbold was elected at the
general election in February 1874 as one of the two
Members of Parliament
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(MPs) for the
borough of Ipswich,
winning a seat held from 1847 to 1868 by his father
John Cobbold (1797–1882). However, the younger Cobbold did not repeat his father's long service, dying office in December 1875, aged 44.
At the resulting
by-election
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, his younger brother
Thomas Cobbold held the seat for the Conservatives.
His son,
John Dupuis Cobbold
John Dupuis Cobbold (11 March 1861, Ipswich – 12 June 1929, Ipswich) was a member of the Ipswich based Cobbold family.
John was born at The Cliff, Ipswich. He was the son of John Patteson Cobbold and Adele Harriette Dupuis, daughter of George ...
, was an artist and the husband of
Zainab 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 da ...
, a
Scottish
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convert to
Islam
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.
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1831 births
1875 deaths
John Patteson Cobbold
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich
UK MPs 1874–1880
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