Richard Cobbold
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Richard Cobbold (1797–1877) was a British writer.
[edit] Life
Born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich into a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry.
Their name lives on in Ipswich in the firm of Tolly Cobbold to this day. Educated at Cambridge, He entered the church, starting at St Mary Le Tower in Ipswich before moving to Wortham in 1825 with his wife and three sons.
He remained there until his death in 1877.
[edit] Work
Cobbold achieved considerable success with his popular historical novels which include:
- The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl (1845)
- Mary Anne Wellington: The Soldier's Daughter, Wife and Widow (1846)
- Zenon The Martyr: A Record of the Piety, Patience and Persecution of the Early Christian Nobles (1847)
- Freston Tower: A Tale of the Times of Cardinal Wolsey (1850)
- The Young Man's Home (1848)
- JH Stegall, a Real History of a Suffolk Man (1851)
During his time at Wortham, more significantly, he recorded the daily lives of his various parishioners, both in words and pictures. His four volumes eventually found a home at the Suffolk Record Office, and have become an invaluable source of information about everyday life in the countryside at that time. In 1977 a book entitled "The Biography of a Victorian Village" was published, in which Ronald Fletcher presents Richard Cobbold's account of 1860s Wortham.
[edit] Weblinks
- Richard Cobbold: The Character of Woman, London 1848, PDF
