Gerard Francis Cobb (Nettlestead, Kent, 15 October 1838 – 31 March 1904) was Junior Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge.
[1][2][3] He was the fourth son of William Francis Cobb, rector of Nettlestead, Kent, and was educated at Marlborough College.
Cobb was an enthusiastic cyclist and was president of the Cambridge University Cycling Club.
[4] Cobb is best remembered for his hymns and settings of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads.
These songs were recorded by Ralph Meanley (baritone) and David Mackie (piano) for Campion in 2007.
A smaller selection including "Lichtenberg" (1904), was recorded by Michael Halliwell (baritone), David Miller (piano) for ABC Classics, Australia.
Cobb married in 1893 Elizabeth Lucy, daughter of John Welchman Whateley, of Birmingham and widow of Stephen Parkinson, tutor of St John's College, Cambridge; she survived him without issue.