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What are the aims of The Cobbold Please join us by taking out a subscription or making Family History Trust? a donation or both! Our overriding purpose is to record FRIENDS and preserve our families’ and associated Subscription families’ histories for the benefit of The This can be any sum of your own choice, monthly, future generations. quarterly or annually – minimum £1 per month of The or £12 per year please, paid by standing order. Can we achieve our aims alone? Family Thomas Cobbold, No. We need a body of interested Donation founder of the brewery History supporters – the Friends. COBBOLD Any sum of your choice. COBBOLD Dear Family and Friends, Trust £100 confers automatic life membership. What is the purpose of the ‘Friends’? £500 confers Foundation Benefactor status. Foundation To build and grow an ENDOWMENT To those of you I know – greetings! To those Benefactors’ names will be recorded on the Trust letterhead FUND, the interest from which will meet I have yet to meet, I hope we can put that (subject to Benefactor’s approval). FAMILY running costs. Every penny donated to this right soon. campaign will go into the fund as all costs Gift Aid have already been met. This is our route to The History Trust is a HISTORY financial independence. When I embarked on exploring the Cobbold charity for tax purposes under reference and related families a few years ago, I had no XT33984 and therefore participates in the What have we done to deserve your Cameron Cobbold, Governor of the idea I was going to unearth a treasure trove of Gift Aid scheme. support? Bank of England TRUST Over the last ten years (the past two as such astounding human experience! You can make your payment either by a charity) the Trust has purposefully built the family tree cheque or bank transfer. If you have (now over 7000 entries), purchased There is no doubt in my mind that what I have any queries please do not hesitate to rare items and records, and accepted contact us for help either by phone, family donations ‘in kind’. An archive of collected (and am still collecting) deserves to be email or post. considerable historical merit has been preserved, and preserved as a single entity. assembled. It is simply too good to lose.

What do we intend to achieve in I will continue to work flat out for the Trust but And why we would like you to join us... Knebworth House 1844 the future? if it is to survive after I am gone, it needs your 48 Cobbolds and thousands of others We will continue to… support. I have been fascinated by my three- gave their lives in two world wars: we • build the families’ tree times great-grandfather; I want my three-times • accept donors’ collections of great-grandson to be fascinated by what you owe it to them, if no one else. family materials and I have left behind. • maintain the website, publishing Rannoch news and views as ‘Cobbwebs’ and tweed woven for the Cobbolds and Hambros developing the ‘King & Country’ feature Please help – not for me, but for your three- • write or commission biographical times great-grandchild! Thank you. pieces on family members for the tree, for the ‘Memorable Members’ feature and the publication of books Anthony • offer help to all parties, without charge, who are genuinely interested in our families’ histories Anthony Cobbold Friends of CFHT • mount small exhibitions which are open to the public Trustee and Keeper 14 Moorfields, Moorhaven, Ivybridge, Devon PL21 0XQ, UK • seek and maintain a safe, permanent home for the archive • comply with the law in all respects having particular regard Tel: +44 (0)1752 894498 to the requirements of the Charity Commission. www.cobboldfht.com [email protected] Charity No. 1144757 –

John Cobbold 1745-1835 Muslim convert, Lady £10 note from Cox, Cobbold Now affectionately and appropriately known Evelyn Cobbold as ‘Big John’, our blue-eyed, fair haired II embarked on the & Company, printed between ancestor took over the brewery aged only 22, and her paper-cut of pilgrimage to Mecca, 1846 and 1887. Mourning added an enviable business in shipping and Ipswich Market Cross completing the Hajj in ring for Sarah Cobbold who banking and fathered 22 children by his two 1817, right and Holy 1933 at the age of 66. died 1777. Cliff Brewery, wives, both named Elizabeth, His life was Wells from her scrap Ipswich,where nine generations unquestionably a job well done. book 1820, far right. of Cobbolds brewed fine Suffolk beers for 266 years.

Rev Temple Chevallier 1794-1873 Aspall Hall, a fine Named after Aspall’s long- moated house purchased time matriarch, Perronelle’s Scion of one of the greatest Suffolk families, a in 1702, has been at Blush is just one of a large great-nephew of the Cobbolds and a polymath Perronelle Guild, whose mother was a Named after Temple, the the centre of Chevallier range of fine of remarkable academic achievement. A noted Cobbold, was a successful fruit farmer and classical scholar, author and reader in Hebrew, Chevallier Lunar Crater, left family life ever since. products from grandmother of the present owners. She was he became Registrar, Professor of Mathematics is 35-40 km in diameter this highly a founder member of the Soil Association, and Professor of Astronomy at the newly and was sketched in 2011 successful as a result of which Aspall Cyder became founded Durham University. by K S Min. Suffolk the organic producer it is today. business.

Richard’s portrait of The Trust’s Rev 1797-1877 hangs display at The 20th child of ‘Big John’ Cobbold by his in Christchurch Mansion Christchurch second Elizabeth, Richard was a prolific, if not and the first edition of his Three of his illustrations Park on the wholly accomplished, writer and painter. His book was published in three of Margaret’s epic ride to Margaret record of life at Wortham where he was Rector volumes in 1845. London are shown together Catchpole for 52 years is a classic and his illustrated story with John Mattox, one of of Margaret Catchpole remains in print and story. contentious to this day. his colourful Wortham parishioners.

The only senior officer Alfred Leete’s famous killed by enemy action Horatio Herbert Kitchener 1850-1916 drawing, left, was in WWI was happier 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum the cornerstone of K of K drowned with leading his men on Son of a Chevallier, nephew of a Cobbold, his successful 1915 nearly all the 650 crew a charger, left, than K of K’s great K of K is a giant amongst us. His title was won recruitment drive of HMS Hampshire on in Whitehall. He was -nephew, Henry, the in Sudan in the 19th C, he commanded in the spawning at least one Franco-Prussian and 2nd Boer Wars, was Sec. the evening of June 5th commemorated by eight 3rd and last Earl, saucy post card, right. of State for War, a Cabinet Minister and killed 1916 when she struck grateful nations on this was a page at the at sea on his way to negotiate with Russia. a German mine just Burslem plate, right. Coronation of King off Orkney. George VI.

Spending so much He was a good correspondent to Francis Edward Cobbold 1853-1935 of his early life in the his father, left. Cobbold Gorge, saddle mustering for whom the Trust designed this FE, as he became known, could have worked in the family brewery but at 14 he chose to livestock gave FE with his wife Bea during poster, right, was named after him. go to sea. Settled in the Australian bush he FE a life-long a trip back to England the The F E Cobbold bequest helps matured as a man of guts and determination for love of year before he died. With hundreds of old people stay in whom honesty was paramount. He prospered horses. his racehorse Danilo, centre, their homes to this day. as a pioneer pastoralist but had no children and Conquistidor, right, his and left his fortune to a grateful charity. most successful horse.