riting; _Advice to Young Men and Women_;
_Cobbett's Corn_ (1828); and _History of the Protestant Reformation in
England and Ireland_ (1824-1827), in which he defends the monasteries,
Queen Mary and Bonner, and attacks the Reformation, Henry VIII.,
Elizabeth and all who helped to bring it about, with such vehemence
that the work was translated into French and Italian, and extensively
circulated among Roman Catholics.

In 1798 Cobbett published in America an account of his early life,
under the title of _The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine_; and
he left papers relating to his subsequent career. His life has been
written by R. Huish (1835), E. Smith (1878), and E. I. Carlyle (1904).
See also the annotated edition of the _Register_ (1835).

COBBOLD, THOMAS SPENCER (1828-1886), English man of science, was born at
Ipswich in 1828, a son of the Rev. Richard Cobbold (1797-1877), the
author of the _History of Margaret Catchpole_. After graduating in
medicine at Edinburgh in 1851, he was appointed lecturer on botany at St
Mary's hospital, London, in 1857, and also on zoology and comparative
anatomy at Middlesex hospital in 1861. From 1868 he acted as Swiney
lecturer on geology at the British Museum until 1873, when he became
professor of botany at the Royal Veterinary College, afterwards filling
a chair of helminthology which was specially created for him at that
institution. He died in London on the 20th of March 1886. His special
subject was helminthology, particularly the worms parasitic in man and
animals, and as a physician he gained a considerable reputation in the
diagnosis of cases depending on the presence of such organisms. His
numerous writings include _Entozoa_ (1864); _Tapeworms_ (1866);
_Parasites_ (1879); _Human Parasites_ (1882); and _Parasites of Meat and
Prepared Flesh Food_ (1884).

COBDEN, RICHARD (1804-1865), English manufacturer and Radical
politician, was born at a farmhouse called Dunford, near Midhurst, in
Sussex, on the 3rd of June 1804. The family had been resident in that
neighbourhood for many generations, occupied partly in trade and partly
in agriculture. Formerly there had been in the town of Midhurst a small
manufacture of hosiery with which the Cobdens were connected, though all
trace of it had disappeared before the birth of Richard. His grandfather
was a maltster in that town, an energetic and prosperous man, almost
always the bailiff or chief magistra