Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 – 6 December 1909) was a British banker, barrister and

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politician. He was a member of the Ipswich Cobbold brewing family but not a brewer himself.

Life

Felix was born in Holywells Mansion,

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...

. He was the son of John Cobbold, Member of Parliament 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 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 ...

, were his elder brothers. He was educated at

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, and returned to the college as a senior fellow in 1871, serving as the estates bursar until 1876. Cobbold also sat as member of parliament for Stowmarket in Suffolk between

1885 Events January * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 17 – Mahdist ...

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 Christchurch Mansion is a substantial Tudor brick mansion house built in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, by Edmund Withypoll (also written "Withipoll") around 1548–1550. The Grade I listed building is located within Christchurch Park and sits b ...

to the town of Ipswich as part of an arrangement to preserve the mansion and surrounding

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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 Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 – 6 December 1909) was a British banker, barrister and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was a member of the Ipswich Cobbold family, Cobbold brewing family but not a brewer himself. Life ...

Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of King's College, Cambridge English barristers Mayors of Ipswich, Suffolk

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