William Cobb (photographer)

He subsequently moved to Woolwich in southeast London where he continued to work.

He married Eliza Read on 26 June 1858 in the New Chapel, St Nicholas Street, Ipswich.

[1] Cobb had his premises in 1 Clarkson Street, Ipswich[2] and also supported Richard Dykes Alexander, an amateur photographer who lived nearby.

[4] After taking over the business of William Heathman, 77-78 Wellington Road, Woolwich in 1872,[5] Cobb took photographs of members of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich for use in Carte-de-visites.

[6] He contributed several articles to the British Journal of Photography in 1880, including a paper he delivered to the South London Photographic Society (SLPS) on "Ballooning from a Photographic Point of View" in which he suggested that the SLPS obtain a balloon of its own.