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n. 1 (surname: English) 2 One of two villages in England.
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Cobham may refer to:
Cobham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Sir Alan Cobham, aviation pioneer
- Alan Cobham (mathematician), the namesake of the Cobham's thesis in the computational complexity theory
- Billy Cobham (born 1944), jazz musician
- Eric Cobham, an early 18th-century pirate
Usage examples of "cobham".
Cobham, and afterwards sat for a long time over cigarettes and coffee and matters of intimate moment which have no place here.
When Cobham, for instance, captured the Spanish ship in the Bay of Biscay, after all resistance was over and the heat of the battle had cooled, he ordered his crew to bind the captain and all of the crew and every Spaniard aboard--whether in arms or not--to sew them up in the mainsail and to fling them overboard.
Before this he was household chaplain to Sir William Brooke, Lord Cobham, who gave him, in 1588-89, the rectory of Radwinter, in Essex, which he held till his death, in 1593.
Then, early in the summer, Sir Alan Cobham came to Southampton with his flying circus, National Aviation Day, he called it.