Thomas Cobbe

Thomas Cobbe (1733–1814), of the Newbridge Demesne in north County Dublin, was an Irish politician. Early life Cobbe was born in London in 1733 into the prominent Cobbe family. His mother, Dorothea Levinge, a daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet, died during childbirth, and his father was the Most Reverend Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin. Before his parents marriage, his mother was the widow of Sir John Rawdon, of Moira, County Down, with whom she had two sons: John, later Earl of Moira, and Arthur Rawdon. From his parents marriage, he had an elder brother, Charles Cobbe, who died in 1750. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Career Cobbe represented Swords in the Parliament of Ireland from 1759 to 1768; and again from 1776 to 1783.