COBDEN

Richard ( 2 son of Wm. Cobden of Dunford, Heyshott near Midhurst, Su ex, farmer, who d. 15 June 1833 ). b. Dunford 3 June 1804; calico printer at Manchester 1829–39; M.P. for Stock port 1841–7, for West riding of Yorkshire 1847–57, for Rochdale 1859 to death; member of Anti-Corn law league Oct. 1838 to 1846, repeal of the corn law was chiefly due to him, sum of nearly £80,000 was raised for him by subscription 1846; negotiated commercial treaty with France signed 23 Jany. 1860; presented with sum of £40,000 by about 100 friends 1860; admitted to freedom of city of London 6 June 1861; author of the following pamphlets England, Ireland and America by a Manchester manufacturer 1835; Ru ia by a Manchester manufacturer 1836; 1792 and 1853 in three letters 1853; How wars are got up in India 1853; What next? and next? 1856; The three, panics of 1848, 1853 and 1862 , 1862. d. 23 Suffolk st. Pall Mall, London 2 April 1865; bur. West Laving ton churchyard near Midhurst 7 April. J. Morley’s Life of R. Cobden 2 vols. 1881, portrait ; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery iii , 51–4 (1847), portrait ; H. R. F. Bourne’s English merchants ii , 365–84 (1866); J. H. Jennings’s Anecdotal history of the British parliament (1880) 332–8; Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 41, portrait .