He was the son of John Lawrence Cobham, archdeacon of Totnes from 1933 until 1947.
[2] He educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate; Tonbridge School; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the University of Marburg; Westcott House, Cambridge and the Académie Goetz.
[3] He was vice-principal of Westcott House, Cambridge from 1930 to 1934; and principal of The Queen's Foundation, Birmingham from 1934 to 1953.
During the Second World War he was vicar of St Benet, Cambridge and a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces.
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