File 2 - E L Cobb Legacy Correspondence: College Mission

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SJCR/SJCS/49/3/2/2

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GB 1859 SJCR/SJCS/49/3/2/2

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E L Cobb Legacy Correspondence: College Mission

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  • 1914-1927 (Creation)

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1 file. Paper.

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(16 January 1877 – 11 March 1947)

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Fellow of St. John's College, 1911-1947, and the first Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge, 1937-1942. Editor of the 'English Historical Review', 1925-1938, and author of many books on medieval history. Elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1929. Senior Treasurer of the Committee for the College Mission, c. 1918-1921.

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Includes papers concerning the investment of the legacy of Elizabeth Lucy Cobb and correspondence on the same between solicitors Foyer & Co., J.G. Leathem (Senior Bursar) and Charles William Previté-Orton (Fellow and Treasurer of the College Mission).

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Elizabeth Lucy Cobb (nee. Whateley) married Rev. Stephen Parkinson, Tutor of St. John's College, in 1871. She was widowed in 1889 and later married Gerard Francis Cobb, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1893. After the death of her second husband in 1904, she continued to live at the Hermitage in Newnham, Cambridge, until her own death on the 27th October 1913, aged 78. She had no children.

Among her generous posthumous benefactions to St. John's and other institutions, Cobb bequeathed £9000 to the Walworth Church Mission. She left the Hermitage to St. John's College in accordance with the wishes of her late husband, Stephen Parkinson (the Hermitage was subsequently acquired by Darwin College, Cambridge, in 1966).

For more information, see "Legacies to College: Land, Plate and Books for St. John's College, Cambridge" in The London Standard (2nd Jan. 1914), p.9.

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C22.20-22

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  • Box: 47/COLLEGE