Edward John Cobbett

[1][2][nb 1] He was a member of the Savage Club in his younger days, "when Bohemianism and exclusiveness were the purport of all its rules".

[nb 6] His daughter Gertrude Winifred married Gerald Aubrey Goodman in 1885.

[5] Cobbet moved to Surrey,[2] retired in 1885, and died aged 84 at Avondale, Winchmore Hill, North London on 11 October 1899.

Cobbett was originally a wood carver, and at the time of his death in 1899, some of his carving could still be seen in the choir of York Minster.

[2][1] "He quickly made a name for himself as one of the chief exponents of the rustic school of painting which had a great vogue from about the middle of the century to the early 'eighties".