The Wayward Children of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge House

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Next Meeting of the Donabate Historical Society takes place on Thursday 18th January 2024 at 8 pm sharp

Venue : Church of Ireland Church, the Square, Donabate

Title : The Wayward Children of Charles Cobbe of Newbridge House

Everybody welcome, Admission €5
Speaker : Peadar Bates

Charles Cobbe was an extraordinary man by any standards.
Possessed of a deep faith, an immense force of will and boundless energy, he strove to use his extensive land holdings for the benefit of all. However, his fiery temper and despotic will, helped in no small way by his narrow religious creed, caused pain and hurt to those he loved the most. “My temper is not good” he recorded, when speaking of his wife, “I know and bewail it”.
His disappointments were many; His daughter Fanny lost her faith and his son William joined a fanatical religious sect.
His hopes that his son Henry would become a Bishop were shattered by his indiscretion with a servant maid, causing him to write of his children, “One after another they have thrown themselves away … my fond hopes and expectations blighted and my heart nearly broken with grief and remorse”.
There is much more.
Not to be missed.