Charles Cobbe
Irish bishop (1686–1765)
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | archbishop |
| honorific-prefix | The Most Reverend |
| name | Charles Cobbe |
| honorific-suffix | D.D. |
| title | Archbishop of Dublin |
| Primate of Ireland | |
| image | Charles Cobbe by Francis Bindon.jpg |
| archdiocese | Dublin |
| appointed | 4 March 1743 |
| term_end | 14 April 1765 |
| term | 1743–1765 |
| predecessor | John Hoadly |
| successor | William Carmichael |
| consecration | 14 August 1720 |
| consecrated_by | John Evans |
| birth_date | 1687 |
| birth_place | Donabate, Ireland |
| death_date | |
| death_place | St. Sepulchre's, Dublin |
| buried | Donabate |
| nationality | Irish |
| spouse | Dorothea Levinge |
| religion | Anglican |
| parents | Thomas Cobbe & Veriana Chaloner |
| previous_post | Bishop of Killala and Achonry (1720-1727) |
| Bishop of Dromore (1727-1731) | |
| Bishop of Kildare (1731-1743) | |
| education | Winchester College |
| alma_mater | Trinity College, Oxford |
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Early life
Cobbe was the second son of Thomas Cobbe, of Swarraton, Winchester, Receiver General for County Southampton, by his marriage to Veriana Chaloner. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford.
Charles Cobbe's maternal grandfather James Chaloner was Governor of the Isle of Man from 1658 to 1660. Following the Restoration of the monarchy, Chaloner committed suicide by taking poison at the approach of English soldiers, knowing they had orders to arrest him and to secure his castle for the king. In some sources, Cobbe's father Thomas Cobbe is also given the title governor of the Isle of Man. Cobbe's older brother was Colonel Richard Chaloner Cobbe.
Career
Cobbe arrived in Ireland in August 1717 as chaplain to his cousin Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By January the following year he was appointed Dean of Ardagh. In 1720, he was appointed to the Bishopric of Killala. By 1726 he was translated to the See of Dromore, and in 1731 he was promoted to the Bishopric of Kildare and the Deanery of Christ Church. He held this position until 10 March 1743 when he was enthroned as Archbishop of Dublin, bringing him to fourth in precedence in the government of Ireland.
Personal life
In 1730, Cobbe married Dorothea ( Levinge), Lady Rawdon, a daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet and the former Mary Corbin. His wife was the widow of Sir John Rawdon, of Moira, County Down, and had two sons by Rawdon: John, later Earl of Moira; and Arthur Rawdon. From her marriage to Cobbe, Dorothea bore two more sons before her death while giving birth to their second son:
- Charles Cobbe (1731–1750), who died unmarried.
- Thomas Cobbe (1733–1814), who married Lady Eliza Beresford, a younger daughter of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone, and Lady Catherine Power, suo jure Baroness La Poer, in 1751. Among her siblings were George Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford, John Beresford, MP, and William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies.
Cobbe was the founder of the prominent Cobbe family in Ireland and built the ancestral home of Newbridge outside Dublin between 1747 and 1752. The collection at Newbridge has been documented in The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum.
He died at St. Sepulchre's, Dublin, on 14 April 1765, and was buried at Donabate.
References
| title = Archbishop of Dublin | years = 1743–1765 | before = John Hoadly | after = William Carmichael | title = Bishop of Kildare | years = 1732–1743 | before = Welbore Ellis | after = George Stone | title = Bishop of Dromore | years = 1727–1732 | before = Ralph Lambert | after = Henry Maule | title = Bishop of Killala and Achonry | years = 1720–1727 | before = Henry Dowes | after = Robert Howard
References
- ''Clerics & connoisseurs: the Rev. Matthew Pilkington, the Cobbe ...''; Alastair Laing, Nicholas Turner; English Heritage – 2001 "1750 Portrait of Charles Cobbe, as Bishop of Kildare, later Archbishop of Dublin (1686–1765) Oil on canvas, ... 1730 and had two sons, Charles and Thomas, the latter born in 1733, when Dorothea died, presumably in childbirth."
- ''[[Country Life (magazine). Country Life]]'' 2001 "The story begins with Charles Cobbe 1686–1765 ... In 1730, they were married, but only three years later Dorothea died, perhaps as a result of giving birth to her second Cobbe son, Thomas."
- ''Publications of the Manx Society''; Volume 24 1877 "James Chaloner was appointed Governor in 1658, and continued so until 1660. Lord Fairfax held the Island until the Restoration, 28th May 1660. The death of Oliver Cromwell, on the 3d September 1658, was a great blow to the Commonwealth ..."
- ''The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, ...'' – Page 103; Stephen C. Manganiello – 2004 "In 1652, Parliament granted Lord Fairfax, his wife's cousin, the Isle of Man. On August 17, 1652, Chaloner was appointed one of the three commissioners to settle Fairfax's affairs on the island. Later, he wrote the Short Treatise of the... Wood says that in March or April, 1660, messengers were sent from the Superior Power to take James Chaloner into custody, and to secure his castle for the use of His Majesty; "but he having received timely notice of their coming, dispatched away himself by poison"
- ''[[Country Life (magazine). Country Life]]'' Volume 178 1985 "Thomas Cobbe's father, Charles, was Archbishop of Dublin from 1742 until 1765, and his career is an interesting ... The Cobbes were originally a Hampshire family, with roots traceable back to the mid-15th century, but the first notable one was the archbishop's father, who was governor of the Isle of Man. Charles Cobbe was his fourth son."
- ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ...''; Volume 1; Sir Bernard Burke, Ashworth Peter Burke – 1894 "Honor, dau. of Sir Richard Norton, of Rotherfield, 2nd bart, and had issue, Thomas Cobbe, Governor of the Isle of Man. m. Veriana, daughter of James Chaloner, MP during the Long Parliament, by his wife Ursula, dau. of Sir Philip Fairfax
- ''Succession of clergy in the parishes of S. Bride, S. Michael le ...'' William George Carroll – 1884 "... our Incumbent, was son of Colonel Richard Chaloner Cobbe, who was eldest son of Thomas Cobbe, Governor of the Isle of Man, and representative of the family of Cobbe of Swararton, in the county of Southampton. Dr. Cobbe's son, Rev. ..."
- (1879). "A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland". London, Harrison.
- Peadar Bates 2007
- {{cite DNB. Thompson. Cooper
- MacGregor, Arthur (ed.) (2015). ''The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum''. London and New Haven, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
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