John Patteson Cobbold (12 July 1831 – 10 December 1875)
was a
Conservative Party politician in England.
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 (MPs) for the
borough of Ipswich
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,
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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A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...
, his younger brother
Thomas Cobbold held the seat for the Conservatives.
His son,
John Dupuis Cobbold, was an artist and the husband of
Zainab Cobbold, a
Scottish
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convert to
Islam
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.
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1831 births
1875 deaths
John Patteson Cobbold
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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