- Cyril Cobb
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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] 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 Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Fulham West in 1918. He was briefly unseated at the 1929 general election, but regained the constituency at a by-election in the following year. He continued to represent Fulham West until his death.[1]
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 died at his London home in March 1938, aged 76.[1]
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cyril Cobb
Political offices Preceded by
Lord CheylesmoreChairman of the London County Council
1913 – 1914Succeeded by
Viscount PeelParliament of the United Kingdom New constituency Member of Parliament for Fulham West
1918–1929Succeeded by
Ernest SperoPreceded by
Ernest SperoMember of Parliament for Fulham West
1930 – 1938Succeeded by
Edith SummerskillCategories:- Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Members of the Royal Victorian Order
- Members of the London County Council
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- 1861 births
- 1938 deaths
- Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
- Councillors in Greater London
- Members of the Middle Temple
- UK MPs 1918–1922
- UK MPs 1922–1923
- UK MPs 1923–1924
- UK MPs 1924–1929
- UK MPs 1929–1931
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- UK MPs 1935–1945
- Municipal Reform Party politicians
- Conservative MP (UK), 1860s birth stubs
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