NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904 NRA: Cobbe Frances Power (1822-1904) Philanthropist Writer and Feminist DNB: Cobbe, Frances Power (1822–1904), writer and campaigner for women's rights LBT ID: ChCobbe1857 LOC ID: n84043724 | B/BAP: 1781 DIED: 1857-11-11 |
SOURCES: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland (1899) 74; thepeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
Of Newbridge House, County Dublin, the son of Charles Cobb (d. 1798); after military
service in India he was an Irish landowner and father of the feminist Frances Power Cobbe
(1822-1904). | |