Cobboldiana

STOP PRESS - COBBOLDIANA DEPOSITED FOR July 2010

• The Trust is fortunate to have received a most unusual small picture in a (well worn) rosewood frame. Measuring 8½” x 12½” it is a lakeside scene in which a gentleman is seeking to persuade a lady to join him and his friends for row on the lake. The back of the picture carries the following inscription:

  Worked in Chenille & painted by Mrs John Cobbold of the Cliff & Holywells (née Harriet Chevallier of Aspall Hall) about 1844.

Harriet Temple Chevallier (1775 – 1851) married John (Wilkinson) Cobbold (1774 – 1860) at Aspall in 1796. They had 14 children and 55 grandchildren.

DEPOSITS FOR July 2010

• Poems by Mrs Elizabeth Cobbold. Ipswich 1825, 1st edition (see News, Jul ’10)

• Sir Harry Parkes, British Representative in Japan, 1865 – 1883 by Gordon Daniels, 1996. Sir Harry (1828 – 1885) married the granddaughter of The Master of the Rolls, Sir Thomas Plumer (1753 – 1824) and the marriage gave rise to lines of Keswicks and Levett-Scriveners as well as Cobbolds.

• Suffolk Houses, A Study of Domestic Architecture by Eric Sandon FRIBA, 1977 but reprinted 2010. Many of the houses described have Cobbold connections.

• The Guide to Suffolk Churches by D P Mortlock, second revised edition, 2009. With so many Cobbold Clergy in the family churches are of great assistance in research.

• Norwich Cathedral, Church, City and Diocese 1096 – 1996 edited by Ian Atherton, Eric Fernie, Christopher Harper-Bill and Hassell Smith, 1996. William Cobbold (1560 – 1639) was Organist at Norwich Cathedral and his father, also William was the leading Norwich Gold and Silversmith.

• Copies of 4 maps of Ipswich published by the Borough of Ipswich, 1975:

  John Speed 1610
  John Ogilby 1674
  Joseph Pennington 1778
  Edward White 1867
  

DEPOSITS FOR June 2010

• Margaret Catchpole 2006 by Laurie Chater Forth; a small but very well researched account of Margaret Catchpole’s time in Australia. Smuggler’s Girl 1990 by Sally Harris, a small book on the same subject, abridged for children by Anglia Young Books. Footnote People in Australian History 1987 which contains an account of Margaret’s life entitled Convict Pioneer and Correspondent by Anita Bezjak. Two copies of Famous Crimes, Vol. 11, numbers 22 and 23 (Police Budget Edition sold for one penny) containing a wholly fanciful version of Margaret’s crime by Harold Furniss (publication date unknown).

• A copy of The Navy & Army Illustrated, Friday April 17th 1896 containing a fine picture by Bassano, Old Bond St, of THE SIRDAR: Brigadier-General Sir H H Kitchener, CB, KCMG, ADC. The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener 1921 by Reginald Viscount Esher published by John murray, Albermarle Street, London W.

• Three Years with Eisenhower 1946, The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C Butcher, USRN, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower, 1942 to 1945. It includes the paragraph “There have been some unpleasant incidents, one of which was the Guards’ Chapel, not far from Buckingham Palace, which was struck during church services Sunday, killing probably 200; one of them, Colonel Ivan Cobbold, Ike’s and Beetle’s host at salmon fishing some time back.”

• Lady Lytton’s Court Diary 1895 – 1899 edited by Mary Lutyens and published in 1961 by Rupert Hart-Davis, Soho Square, London.

• Lost Country Houses of Suffolk by W M Roberts published 2010 by Boydell Press, fascinating reading not only for what it tells us about the houses but also about the families who lived in them.

• Two small books, Canapes & Dips, and Tea Time Recipes in the Butlers Court series by Melissa Matthews.

DEPOSITS FOR May 2010

• Two copies of Country Life dated 1906 featuring Knebworth House. Three copies of Country Life dated 1902, 1908 and 1911 featuring The Countess of Lytton and her children. A fine engraved medallion portrait, by E W Wyon, about 1840 with text, of Edward Lytton Bulwer (1803 – 1873), 1st Lord Lytton.

• Visitations of England and Wales by Howard and Crisp, Vol 3, No 452, 1895 Visitations of England and Wales by Frederick Arthur Crisp, Vol 6 notes No 105, 1906 Visitations of England and Wales by Frederick Arthur Crisp, Vol 13, No 303, 1905 Visitations of England and Wales by Frederick Arthur Crisp, Vol 14, No 105, 1906.

• Chablis à Table; Food for Chablis; 2002 by David Cobbold. As well as expert advice on Chablis this book contains mouth-watering recipes.

• Two more Mildenhall Speedway programmes, 1977 and 1982, one for The Cobbold / Bugg Championship and the other for The Joe Cobbold Trophy Junior Championship.

DEPOSITS FOR Apr 2010

• A Christmas Pagent by Joan Cobbold, Music composed and arranged by Martin Shaw, published 1925 by J Curwen & Sons Ltd, London W1. The Christmas Pagent is not a play. It is built up on the lines of the Masque. It presents a number of characteristic Christmas figures and symbols passing in procession before the audience. These figures, all of whom represent some aspect of Christmas, emphasize this in turn by an episode of pageantry, song or dance – grave or gay as occasion demands; ending with the Christmas game of Oranges and Lemons, in the middle of which appears the figure of the writer who, of all others, has brought the spirit of Christmas into modern England – Charles Dickens.

• 3 Cobbold & Co brewery documents, the first being a letter to The Chloride Electrical Storage Co Ltd in Manchester dated 1922; the second being a letter from The Aluminium Plant and Vessel Company Limited in London SW 18, dated 1924 and the third being a Test Certificate (under Docks Regulations, 1925) issued in 1926 by W & E Moore Limited of Poplar.

DEPOSITS FOR Mar 2010

• Visitation of England and Wales (edited initially by Joseph Jackson Howard LL.D and Frederick Arthur Crisp but subsequently by Crisp alone and therefore often referred to as ‘Crisp’s Visitations’), Volumes 1 (1893), 8 (1900), 9 (1901), 11(1903) and 12 (1904) have been deposited in the Trust’s library and it is hoped that further deposits will follow.

• Affair of State, A Biography of The 8th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire by Henry Vane, 2004.

DEPOSITS FOR Feb 2010

• From Cloisters to Cup Finals, A History of Charterhouse Football by Malcolm Bailey, published 2009. The author, a Cambridge Blue, Captain in 1973, who now coaches the Charterhouse 1st XI has written a lavishly produced, copiously illustrated and highly detailed account of the development of football which is of great interest to this family which numbers at least 8 Old Carthusians including, of course, our noblest footballing son, W N Cobbold who also captained Cambridge and was capped for England five times.

• Mr John, John Cobbold: The Most Eccentric Man In Football Ever by Mel Henderson; a signed copy dedicated “Best wishes to all the Cobbold clan”

• The Union Child’s Belief: Being a Series of Letters upon The Creed (1855) by Richard Cobbold (a Legacy Reprint)

DEPOSITS FOR Jan 2010

• Ode on the Victory of Waterloo by Elizabeth Cobbold (1764 – 1824), dedicated to His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales, Regent of the United British Empire. Holy Wells, Ipswich, August 12th, 1815. (A Bibliolife reprint)

• Six Village Sermons from Nature (1884) by William Cobbold Vaughan, Priest-in-charge of Tallarn, in the parish of Hanmer, Flint. (A Kessinger reprint).

• Dorset Life, December 2009 which carries at page 44 an excellent article by Jane Dismore on the tragic life of Pamela Hambro née Cobbold (1900 – 1932). See ‘Feature Jan ‘10’.