John Wilkinson Cobbold (1774–1860) was an English businessman, banker and brewer active in Ipswich.
[1] As a young man John Cobbold was given responsibility for the family brewery at Eye, Suffolk.
After the death of his father in 1835, he took over running the business in Ipswich.
He became the largest merchant and ship-owner in the area, trading in the Corn, Coal and Malt.
The number of people he employed overall amounted to several hundred.