title: Robert Henry Cobbold
text: # Robert Henry Cobbold
  
  Robert Henry Cobbold (Chinese: 哥伯播义) (1816, Eye, Suffolk - 1893 Hereford ) was an Anglican missionary who worked with William Russell at the Church Missionary Society in China in Ningbo, China.
  
  He and Russell left for China in November 1847, arriving in Ningbo, where they started work with the assistance of Mary Ann Aldersey.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Several of his works were printed in Chinese:
  
  * 1856 Exhortations for the Age (pinyin: Ch'uan-shih-wen,)
  