George A. (George Augustus) Cobbold

Born in 1857, George Augustus Cobbold was an English Anglican clergyman and author. Surviving catalog and reference records identify him as a priest and connect him with a body of religious writing published from the late 1880s into the early 1900s.

His books include Mercy and Truth (1888), Religion in Japan: Shintoism, Buddhism, Christianity (published in the 1890s and also found in a 1905 edition), Tempted Like As We Are (1900), The Message of the Hours (1904), and Why I Am an Anglo-Catholic (1907, later reissued in 1916). Together, these works suggest a writer interested both in practical Christian devotion and in explaining belief to a wider audience in a straightforward way.

Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, Cobbold stands out as a thoughtful church writer whose books were meant to guide, teach, and encourage. His study of Japanese religion is especially notable for showing an outward-looking curiosity that went beyond the usual parish setting of many clergy authors of his time.