Cobden

[ kob-duh n ]

/ ˈkɒb dən /

noun

Richard,1804–65, English manufacturer, merchant, economist, and statesman.

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Examples from the Web for cobden

There is no disposition to take in Cobden and Bright, but they would not object to Molesworth.
The Greville Memoirs (Third Part) Volume I (of II)|Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
The experience of last year alone has shown us what we might expect if Cobden's views were realised.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849|Various
Mr Cobden, so far as we can gather from his orations, advocates the propriety of disbanding the army on the score of peace.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849|Various
But Cobden's parliamentary work was at this time less important than his work as an agitator.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol X|Various

We may in fact look on the Cobden Club and the principles it advocated from two points of view.
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire|James Wycliffe Headlam

British Dictionary definitions for cobden

Cobden

/ (ˈkɒbdən) /

noun

Richard. 1804–65, British economist and statesman: with John Bright a leader of the successful campaign to abolish the Corn Laws (1846)

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012