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S. Cobb

Short Name: S. Cobb
Full Name: Cobb, S. (Samuel), 1675-1713
Birth Year: 1675
Death Year: 1713

Cobb, Samuel, M.A., sometime Master of Christ's Hospital, published in 1707, Poems on Several Occasions. He died in 1713.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Samuel Cobb (baptized 1675–1713) was an English poet, critic and school master who was known for a light hearted, ironic pose in his verse and a witty, good natured personal life.
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