Trained as a barrister, he was the second son of the English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and Member of Parliament William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides (1830) and his wife Anne née Reid.

[5] He had stood unsuccessfully at Oldham on an all-Radical "plague on both your houses" slate with John Fielden in 1847.

[2] From 1872 to his death in 1877, he sat as a Conservative (but one calling for annual Parliaments and manhood suffrage).

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