Cobbe family

The family has a notable history,[1] and has produced several prominent Irish politicians, clergymen, writers, activists and soldiers, such as philosopher, writer and social reformer Frances Power Cobbe and General Sir Alexander Cobbe VC.

[6][7] A later Richard Cobbe was Knight of the Shire for Hampshire in Cromwell's short Parliament of 1656.

[8] His son Thomas Cobbe, Receiver General for County Southampton, married the daughter of James Chaloner, grandson of the Elizabethan poet and statesman Sir Thomas Chaloner.

He and his wife, Lady Eliza Beresford, daughter of the Earl of Tyrone, extended Newbridge House and to house their picture collection built the Red Drawing-room that remains one of the finest 18th-century interiors in Ireland.

[11] The diarist Charles Cobbe's younger brother, Thomas Alexander Cobbe, married the Nuzeer Begum, daughter of Aziz Khan of Kashmir, part of the Indian nobility, and traded indigo to Britain in addition to work in the East India Company.