COBBOLD, Thomas Clement (3 son of John Chevalier Cobbold 1797–1882). b. Ipswich 22 July 1833; ed. at Charterhouse; served in diplomatic service abroad 5 Sep. 1855 to 22 Dec. 1875; M.P. for Ipswich 1 Jany. 1876 to death; C.B. 2 Sep. 1879. d. Ipswich 21 Nov. 1883. Graphic xiii, 75, 84 (1876), portrait.

COBBOLD, Thomas Spencer (youngest son of Rev. Richard Cobbold 1797–1877). b. Ipswich 26 May 1828; ed. at the Charterhouse and Edin. univ., M.D. and gold medallist 1851, curator of the anatomical museum 1851–7; lecturer on botany at St. Mary’s hospital, London 1857–61, at Middlesex hospital 1861 where he lectured on comparative anatomy 13 years; practised in London 1865; Swiney lecturer on geology at British Museum, May 1868 to May 1873; professor of botany at Royal Veterinary college 1873 of helminthology 1874; F.R.S. 2 June 1864; author of Entozoa, an introduction to the study of Helminthology 1864; Tapeworms 1866, 4 ed. 1883; Parasites, a treatise on the Entozoa of man and animals 1879. d. 74 Portsdown road, Maida hill, London 20 March 1886. Barker’s Photographs of eminent medical men ii, 77–81 (1868), portrait; Lancet 27 March 1886 p. 616.

COBDEN, Richard (2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near Midhurst, Sussex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833). b. Dunford 3 June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for Stockport 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838 to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer 1835; Russia by a Manchester manufacturer 1836; 1792 and 1853 in three letters 1853; How wars are got up in India 1853; What next? and next? 1856; The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862, 1862. d. 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; bur. West Lavington churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. J. Morley’s Life of R. Cobden 2 vols. 1881, portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii, 51–4 (1847), portrait; H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii, 365–84 (1866); J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal history of the British parliament (1880) 332–8; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 41, portrait.

COCHET, John. b. Rochester 3 Aug. 1760; entered navy 22 Dec. 1775, captain 9 Dec. 1796, placed on h.p. 30 May 1799; principal agent for transports in the Mediterranean 2 May 1805 to June 1810; admiral 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bideford 10 June 1851.

COCHRANE, Charles (natural son of hon. Basil Cochrane, lieut. col. 36 foot who d. 14 May 1816). Traversed the United Kingdom dressed in Hungarian costume and sang songs while playing the guitar 1825–6; the farce of The Wandering Minstrel by Henry Mayhew produced at Fitzroy theatre, London 16 Jany. 1834 was founded on his eccentricities; pres. of National philanthropic instit. in Leicester sq. London 1842–50; contested city of Westminster July 1847; author of Journal of a tour made by Senor Juan de Vega, a character assumed by an English gentleman 2 vols. 1830. d. Nelson sq. Blackfriars road, London 13 June 1855 in 48 year. G.M. xliv, 324–5 (1855).

COCHRANE, Sir James (4 son of Thomas Cochrane, speaker of house of assembly at Nova Scotia). b. Nova Scotia 1798; barrister I.T. 6 Feb. 1829; attorney general of Gibraltar 1837, chief justice 1841 to May 1877; knighted at St. James’s palace 12 March 1845; d. Glenrocky, Gibraltar 24 June 1883.

COCHRANE, John George (son of Mr. Cochrane of Glasgow). b. Glasgow 1781; bookseller and publisher with John White in Fleet st. London; manager of foreign bookselling house of Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, Soho sq.; acting editor of Foreign quarterly review 1827–35; edited Caledonian Mercury at Edin.; catalogued Sir Walter Scott’s library at Abbotsford; edited a newspaper at Hertford; sec. and librarian of London library, London 17 Feb. 1841 to death, library was opened 3 May 1841; compiled two catalogues of the library 1842 and 1847. d. London library, St. James’s sq. London 11 May 1852. Catalogue of the London library by R. Harrison 1875 pp. vii-xi.

COCHRANE, Sir Thomas John (eld. child of Sir Alexander Forester Inglis Cochrane, G.C.B. 1758–1831). b. Edinburgh 5 Feb. 1789; entered navy 15 June 1796; captain 23 April 1806; second in command on East India station 1842 to 1845; commander-in-chief 1845 to 1847; commander-in-chief at Portsmouth 18 Dec. 1852 to Jany. 1856; admiral 31 Jany. 1856; admiral of the fleet 12 Sep. 1865; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 29 May 1812; governor of Newfoundland 16 April 1825 to 1834; M.P. for Ipswich 1837–41; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 29 Oct. 1847, G.C.B. 18 May 1860. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 19 Oct. 1872. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 25 Oct.

COCHRANE, William George. Ensign 40 foot 13 Feb. 1805; lieut.-col. 10 foot 16 Sep. 1836 to 10 July 1837 when placed on h.p.; deputy adjutant general in Ireland 11 Dec. 1846 to 1 April 1852; colonel 11 foot 23 June 1856 to death; L.G. 26 Sep. 1856. d. 127 Piccadilly, London 4 Sep. 1857.

COCK, Henry. Entered Bengal army 1802; col. 64 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Hopton hall near Lowestoft 17 Feb. 1851.