Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841

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– 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.

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Felix was born in Holywells Mansion, Ipswich. He was the son of John Cobbold,

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for

, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Henry Patteson (sometime Rector of

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and of

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). John Cobbold, Thomas Cobbold and Nathaniel Cobbold, grandfather of

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 Lond ...

, were his elder brothers. He was educated at

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, and later became a senior fellow of this college. Cobbold also sat as

for Stowmarket in Suffolk between

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and

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, and for

between

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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.The man who saved the mansion
Steven Russell, 15 October 2009 He also bequeathed Gippeswyk Park to Ipswich. Cobbold died in December 1909, aged 68.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cobbold, Felix Thornley 1841 births 1909 deaths UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1906–1910 Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Ipswich Felix Cobbold Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge English barristers Mayors of Ipswich, Suffolk

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