Background
He was the son of J F Cobb of Margate, Kent.
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Cyril Cobb
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Following education at Newton Abbot, Devon and at Merton College, Oxford, he studied law.
Career
He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1887. 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.
In 1907 the Moderates, reorganised as the Municipal Reform Party, gained control of the council.
In 1934 the Labour Party gained control of the LCC, and Cobb lost his seat. 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. He died at his London home in March 1938, aged 76.
Achievements
Membership
31st United Kingdom Parliament. 32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 33rd United Kingdom Parliament.
34th United Kingdom Parliament.
35th United Kingdom Parliament. 36th United Kingdom Parliament.
37th United Kingdom Parliament]
Cobb was to be a leading member of the authority for the next twenty-seven years, and was chairman in 1913 – 1914. In the meantime, he had been elected to the Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Fulham West in 1918.
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Political Party
Conservative Party