John Cobbold (1797–1882)

John Chevallier Cobbold DL JP (24 August 1797 – 6 October 1882)[1] was a British brewer, railway developer and Conservative Party politician.

Until his father's death in 1860 he lived at Cobbold Lodge in Felixstowe.

The EUR was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) in 1854 with ECR chairman David Waddington leading the negotiations and driving a hard bargain leading Cobbold to remark "a strong minority of our Board consider that you have done us".

[6] Cobbold married Lucy, daughter of a rural rector, Henry Patteson, in 1827.

Cobbold survived her by three years and died in October 1882, aged 85. http://family-tree.cobboldfht.com/people/view/114 Clive Hodges: Cobbold & Kin: Life Stories from an East Anglian Family (Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2014) ISBN 9781843839545