Felix Cobbold

Felix Thornley Cobbold (8 September 1841 Ipswich – 6 December 1909)[1] was a British banker, barrister and Liberal Party politician.

He was the son of John Cobbold, Member of Parliament for Ipswich, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Henry Patteson (sometime Rector of Drinkstone and of Wortham, Suffolk).

[2] Cobbold also sat as member of parliament for Stowmarket in Suffolk between 1885 and 1886, and for Ipswich between 1906 and his death.

Although he opposed Irish Home Rule originally, he returned to the Liberal Party as an advanced Radical.

Clive Hodges: Cobbold & Kin: Life Stories from an East Anglian Family (Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2014) ISBN 9781843839545