(died 20 November 1936) was a British amateur geologist, who was an authority on Cambrian fossils.
[1][2] He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1921, and an honorary DSc by the Victoria University of Manchester in 1930.
In 1886, he retired to Church Stretton, and devoted the rest of his life to the study of natural history.
Cobbold's detailed work on Cambrian rocks in the areas around Stretton and Wrekin led to the discovery of hundreds of new species of fossils, and allowed Cobbold to sub-divide the Cambrian succession into many fine time-divisions.
In 1930, Cobbold was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Manchester, as a part of the celebrations of the eighieth anniversary of the foundation of Owens College, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Victoria University of Manchester.