Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold
The Right Honourable The Lady Cobbold | |
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 Hermione Cobbold in 1924 | |
| Born | Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton (1905-08-31)31 August 1905 |
| Died | 27 October 2004(2004-10-27) (aged 99) |
| Spouse | Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold |
| Children | David Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold |
| Parent(s) | Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton Pamela Chichele-Plowden |
Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (born Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton; 31 August 1905 – 27 October 2004), known as Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton until 1930, was the British matriarch of Knebworth House and wife of the 1st Baron Cobbold.[1]
She was born in 1905 to the 2nd Earl of Lytton and Pamela Frances Audrey Chichele-Plowden; during her father's tenure as acting Viceroy of India in 1926 she became acting Vicereine as her mother, who would have held that role, was in England.[2]
It was while she was in India that she met and married (in 1930) Cameron Cobbold, the future Baron Cobbold. She inherited Knebworth House following the death of her father in 1947; both her brothers predeceased their father. Hermione Cobbold was an energetic supporter of many charities and local organizations such as the YMCA. She died in Hertfordshire at the age of 99, survived by her daughter and two sons. Her elder daughter had died in 1937.[3]
References
- ^ "(Margaret) Hermione (née Bulwer-Lytton) | Lady Cobbold (1905-2004), Wife of Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold; daughter of 2nd Earl of Lytton". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ "Lady Hermione Cobbold: Calcutta, Darjeeling and Sikkim". Knebworth House. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ^ "Obituary: Hermione Lady Cobbold". The Independent. 8 November 2004. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
Sources
- "Obituary: Hermione, Lady Cobbold". The Times. 2 November 2004. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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Cobbold family tree
| Thomas Cobbold brewer (1680–1752) | Mary Woodthorpe (died 1758) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thomas Cobbold (1708–1767) | Sarah Cobbold (1717–1777) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Isabella Garrett (died 1777) | William Cobbold (1747–1795) | Elizabeth Wilkinson (1753–1790) | John Cobbold (1746–1835) | Elizabeth Knipe novelist and poet (1765–1824) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary Anne Trapnell (1781–1810) | Thomas Cobbold (1772–1835) | Harriet Temple Chevallier (1775–1851) | John Wilkinson Cobbold (1774–1860) | Richard Cobbold novelist and priest (1797–1877) | Mary Anne Waller (1801–1876) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary Anne Cobbold (1806–1868) | Francis Cobbold priest (1803–1844) | John Chevallier Cobbold brewer, railway developer and politician (1797–1882) | Lucy Patteson (1800–1879) | Thomas Spencer Cobbold scientist (1828–1886) | Edward Augustus Cobbold priest (1825–1900) | Mathilda Caroline Smith (1826–1923) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Chevallier priest and canon (1823–1885) | Isobella Frances Cobbold (1834–1917) | John Patteson Cobbold politician (1831–1875) | Adela Harriette Dupuis (1837–1917) | Nathanael Fromanteel Cobbold (1839–1886) | Caroline Ellen Boutell (1843–1882) | William Nevill "Nuts" Cobbold footballer (1863–1922) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maj. Ernest St George Cobbold (1840–1895) | Helen Emma Cazenove (1842–1917) | Thomas Clement Cobbold diplomat (1833–1883) | Felix Thornley Cobbold barrister and politician (1841–1909) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Barrington Chevallier (1857–1940) | Isabel Amy Cobbold (1869–1931) | John Dupuis Cobbold (1861–1929) | Lady Evelyn Murray later Zainab Cobbold (1867–1963) | Ralph Patteson Cobbold British Army soldier and writer (1869–1965) | Clement John Cobbold (1882–1961) | Stella Willoughby Cameron (1882–1918) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lady Blanche Katharine Cavendish (1898–1987) | John Murray Cobbold (1897–1944) | Pamela Cobbold (1900–1932) | Charles Jocelyn Hambro merchant banker and intelligence officer (1897–1963) | Lady Margaret Hermione Lytton (1905–2004) | Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold (1904–1987) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Cavendish Cobbold businessman (1927–1983) | Patrick Mark Cobbold businessman (1934–1994) | Charles Eric "Charlie" Hambro, Baron Hambro (1930–2002) | David Antony Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold (1937–2022) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 1962) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- Cobbold Family History Trust
Family tree of the Cobbold family
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