Thomas COBB #45112
1773 - 26 NOV 1817
BIRTH 1773
DEATH 26 NOV 1817, London, England
Obituary.
"Nov 26. Died, at an hotel in Albemarle-street, whither he had come for medical advice, the Rev. Thomas Cobb, prebendary of Chichester in Sussex, rector of Ightham, and vicar of Sittingbourne in Kent.
Having passed with credit through the King's school at Canterbury, he took the usual academical degrees at Oriel College, Oxford; married early the niece and heiress of the late Samuel Wyatt, esq.; was shortly after presented by the late Archbishop of Canterbury to the vicarage of Sittingbourne; and in the year 1801 became rector of Ightham, where, with an activity of mind and body seldom equalled, he passed a useful, but alas! short life, in the unostentatious discharge of the numerous duties which attend the minister of a populous parish, and a justice of the peace. As a parish priest, he was distinguished for a most ready and unremitting attendance on the sick; and, having happily the means, he was also blessed with the disposition to adminsister largely to the wants of those around him; uniting in the exercise of his charities a sound judgement with a warm heart. Nature had bestowed on him a powerful, but pleasantly-toned voice; and his manner, at the same time that it commanded the attention of his hearers, gainly strongly on their affections.
A conscientious and pious son of the Church of England, as well as a watchful observer of passing events, he was used from the pulpit, not only to excite the affections, but to inform the understandings of his parishioners, upon those points of Religion which the circumstances of the times rendered most liable to attack. Nor were the energies of his mind directed to professional duties alone-as a justice of the peace, the same firmness, activity, and charity, constantly marked his conduct. An excellent understanding, a retentive memory, great eagerness for, and a happy facility in, the acquirement of knowledge, combined to render him, for above twenty years, a highly valuable member of the Bench. Regardless alike of popular applause or popular odium, he was ever ready to protect the injured, and to repress the forward; and perhaps few magistrates have acted in their vocation more consistently with that excellent admonition so frequently read, and so little attended to, the Kings Proclamation against Vice and Immorality.
There was in him a happy union of firmness of mind with tenderness of heart, that made him ever ready to expose himself in the service of others; a remarkable instance occurred on the breaking out of a typhus fever in one of the prisons of which he was a visiting justice; when immediately, and at considerable hazard, he closely examined every part where the infection was supposed to lurk, and, by decisive measures, and judicious arrangement, was the means, under the blessing of God, of preventing that dreadful disorder from spreading in a very crowded prison, in the midst of the town of Maidstone; at the same time that his personal conduct quieted the alarm that had spread itself among the inhabitants, and which might have led almost to a desertion of the sick.
The situation, however, in which he alone with peculiar lustre was in the discharge of the duties of hospitality, and in the bosom of his family. Great tenderness of heart, unparalleled evenness of mind, unceasing cheerfulness, animated wit, and a most engaging playfulness of manner, combined to make him inexpressibly dear as a son, brother, husband, parent and friend: harmony and affection were the companions of his fire-side, where he exercised authority without its being felt; and the happy influence of his noble temper and well-regulated feelings diffused itself through the family circle.
In his friendships he was warm and faithful: slow and cautious in fixing his good opinion; yet once bestowed, his devotion to his friend was free and unbounded; and fortunate were those whom his discrimination selected for confidential intimacy. In private, as in public, he was equally an ornament of the sphere in which he moved; and in each, his death has left a void not easy to be supplied.
An internal disorder, that baffled the skill of medical science, tried his patience for many weeks, but did not overcome it; and at the age of 44, this excellent and valuable man resigned his soul into the hands of his Maker, trusting to his Redeemer's sacrifice for acceptance at the Throne of Mercy. His grave has been bedewed with the tears of affectionate and unfeigned grief, but not of “as of men without hope;” for, as the mortal scene never closed over a human being with deeper sensations of regret, so never was the consolatory confidence stronger, that its termination has led to a glorious immortality."
"Nov 26. Died, at an hotel in Albemarle-street, whither he had come for medical advice, the Rev. Thomas Cobb, prebendary of Chichester in Sussex, rector of Ightham, and vicar of Sittingbourne in Kent.
Having passed with credit through the King's school at Canterbury, he took the usual academical degrees at Oriel College, Oxford; married early the niece and heiress of the late Samuel Wyatt, esq.; was shortly after presented by the late Archbishop of Canterbury to the vicarage of Sittingbourne; and in the year 1801 became rector of Ightham, where, with an activity of mind and body seldom equalled, he passed a useful, but alas! short life, in the unostentatious discharge of the numerous duties which attend the minister of a populous parish, and a justice of the peace. As a parish priest, he was distinguished for a most ready and unremitting attendance on the sick; and, having happily the means, he was also blessed with the disposition to adminsister largely to the wants of those around him; uniting in the exercise of his charities a sound judgement with a warm heart. Nature had bestowed on him a powerful, but pleasantly-toned voice; and his manner, at the same time that it commanded the attention of his hearers, gainly strongly on their affections.
A conscientious and pious son of the Church of England, as well as a watchful observer of passing events, he was used from the pulpit, not only to excite the affections, but to inform the understandings of his parishioners, upon those points of Religion which the circumstances of the times rendered most liable to attack. Nor were the energies of his mind directed to professional duties alone-as a justice of the peace, the same firmness, activity, and charity, constantly marked his conduct. An excellent understanding, a retentive memory, great eagerness for, and a happy facility in, the acquirement of knowledge, combined to render him, for above twenty years, a highly valuable member of the Bench. Regardless alike of popular applause or popular odium, he was ever ready to protect the injured, and to repress the forward; and perhaps few magistrates have acted in their vocation more consistently with that excellent admonition so frequently read, and so little attended to, the Kings Proclamation against Vice and Immorality.
There was in him a happy union of firmness of mind with tenderness of heart, that made him ever ready to expose himself in the service of others; a remarkable instance occurred on the breaking out of a typhus fever in one of the prisons of which he was a visiting justice; when immediately, and at considerable hazard, he closely examined every part where the infection was supposed to lurk, and, by decisive measures, and judicious arrangement, was the means, under the blessing of God, of preventing that dreadful disorder from spreading in a very crowded prison, in the midst of the town of Maidstone; at the same time that his personal conduct quieted the alarm that had spread itself among the inhabitants, and which might have led almost to a desertion of the sick.
The situation, however, in which he alone with peculiar lustre was in the discharge of the duties of hospitality, and in the bosom of his family. Great tenderness of heart, unparalleled evenness of mind, unceasing cheerfulness, animated wit, and a most engaging playfulness of manner, combined to make him inexpressibly dear as a son, brother, husband, parent and friend: harmony and affection were the companions of his fire-side, where he exercised authority without its being felt; and the happy influence of his noble temper and well-regulated feelings diffused itself through the family circle.
In his friendships he was warm and faithful: slow and cautious in fixing his good opinion; yet once bestowed, his devotion to his friend was free and unbounded; and fortunate were those whom his discrimination selected for confidential intimacy. In private, as in public, he was equally an ornament of the sphere in which he moved; and in each, his death has left a void not easy to be supplied.
An internal disorder, that baffled the skill of medical science, tried his patience for many weeks, but did not overcome it; and at the age of 44, this excellent and valuable man resigned his soul into the hands of his Maker, trusting to his Redeemer's sacrifice for acceptance at the Throne of Mercy. His grave has been bedewed with the tears of affectionate and unfeigned grief, but not of “as of men without hope;” for, as the mortal scene never closed over a human being with deeper sensations of regret, so never was the consolatory confidence stronger, that its termination has led to a glorious immortality."
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MARRIAGE St. Luke
25 APR 1798, Chelsea, London, England