Cyril Cobb
Sir Cyril Stephen Cobb, KBE, MVO (1861 – 8 March 1938) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.
He was the son of J F Cobb of Margate, Kent. Following education at Newton Abbot, Devon and at Merton College, Oxford, he studied law. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1887.[1]
In 1905 a by-election was held for a vacant London County Council seat at Fulham. Cobb was the candidate of the Conservative-backed Moderate Party, and succeeded in taking the seat from the majority Progressive Party.[2] In 1907 the Moderates, reorganised as the Municipal Reform Party, gained control of the council. Cobb was to be a leading member of the authority for the next twenty-seven years, and was chairman in 1913 – 1914.[1] He also served as chairman of the LCC's education committee.[3] In 1934 the Labour Party gained control of the LCC, and Cobb lost his seat.[1]
In the meantime, he had been elected to the
He was made a member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1911 and a Knight of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.[1] He was a member of the London Survey Committee, a voluntary organisation publishing architectural surveys of the capital.[4] He also served as honorary secretary of St Saviour's Hospital, Regent's Park.[3] He died at his London home in March 1938, aged 76.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Obituary: Sir Cyril Cobb - Parliament and The L.C.C. The Times, 9 March 1938, p. 16
- ^ London County Council, The Times, 30 October 1905, p. 9
- ^ a b The Times House of Commons 1919. London: The Times Publishing Company (Limited). 1919. p. 19.
- ^ "Members of the Survey Committee Pages 4-7 Survey of London Monograph 12". British History Online. Guild & School of Handicraft, London, 1926. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cyril Cobb
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