1100 Henry Cobb

Constituency : Rugby  1885-95

Henry  took  the  new  seat  of  Rugby.

Henry  was  from  Oxfordshire. His  father  had  interests  in  girth-weaving  and  banking. He  was  a  Unitarian. He  became  a  solicitor  and  was  also  a  partner  in  the  family  bank.

Henry  was  a  radical  and  pressed  Gladstone  for  radical  measures  "while  the  steam  was  up". He  wanted  to  extend  free  education  to  secondary  pupils.

Henry  questioned  the  government  over  their  help  to  The  Times  in  the  Parnell  case.

He  died  in  1910  aged  74.