What is "cobden"

Usage examples of "cobden".

We swabbed envelopes and stamps at the West Sussex Record Office, where Ellen Cobden Sickert’s family archives - and, coincidentally, some of Montague John Druitt's family archives - are kept.

Ellen Cobden Sickert was almost obsessive in her zeal to see that the Cobden role in history would be remembered and cherished.

Those instructions, along with the rest of Ellen's letters and diaries, were do­nated by the Cobden family to the West Sussex Public Record office.

One of Sickert's favorite spots for rendezvous was the statue of his for­mer father-in-law, Richard Cobden, on the square off Mornington Cres­cent in Camden Town.

Ellen Melicent Ashburner Cobden was born on August 18, 1848, in Dunford, the family's old farmhouse near the village of Heyshott, in West Sussex.

In the most recent letter from Richard Cobden, he told his daughter that a violent storm had slammed the family estate and torn up thirty-six trees by the roots.

This period of his life was physical and emotional torture, and in years to come Cobden could scarcely bear to speak of it.

As a small boy, Richard Cobden watched the desperate come to Dunford and beg for alms or food that his own family could not afford.

The laws would remain in effect until 1846, when Cobden won his fight to repeal them.

Richard Cobden was devoted to his family and became the only sta­bility in his daughters' young lives after his only son, Richard Brooks, died at age fifteen in 1856.

The headmaster at Richard's school contacted a Cobden family friend, and each man assumed the other had wired Richard Cobden about his son's sudden death.

Stunned and beside himself with grief, Cobden immediately began the five-hour journey to Dunford, anguishing over how to tell his family, especially Kate.

Kate Cobden would outlive her husband by twelve years, but she was an emotionally stricken woman who, as her husband put it, "stumbles over [Richard's] corpse as she is passing from room to room.

For years Cobden had been susceptible to respiratory infections that sent him on voyages or to the seaside or the countryside - wherever there was better air than the sooty soup of London.

Richard Fisher was engaged to daughter Katie when Cobden died, and he rushed her into marriage before the family had stopped writing letters on mourning stationery.