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CUMBERBATCHs Worthy of Note
World War Two Memorial
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A reproduction of the names to be found within
the pages of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
Also includes details and a photograph of the
Barbados Second Contingent containing the pitcure of
Sergeant Grey Doyle Cumberbatch
who would die during the course of the war and of Errol Barrow
who would survive and become Barbados' first Prime Minister. |
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Rear Admiral Claude Lionel Cumberlege
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The
naval career of
Rear Admiral Claude
Lionel Cumberlege as researched and contributed by Stephen Collins
and published with the kind permission of C L Cumberlege's son
Mistral and of Stephen Collins. C L Cumberbatch was born 9th June 1877
and his military career starts when he was aged 12 years old and was
a Midshipman by the time he reached 16 years of age. He retired 18
June 1922 aged 45 and was appointed Rear Admiral on 30 June 1922. |
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Commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch
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The naval career of
Commander Henry Carlton
Cumberbatch researched and
contributed by Richard Taylor and published with his kind
permission.
Henry
Carlton Cumberbatch the son of Mr Henry Alfred
Cumberbatch (Consul
General) CMG and Helene Gertrude Cumberbatch nee
Rees who married
Pauline
Ellen Laing Congdon daughter of T.E.
Congdon 26th April 1934 St. Mary
Abbot's Church, Kensington, London, England. This contains photographs
of medals that he won during competitions in the navy. |
The CUMBERBATCH Trophy
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Originally commissioned by Alice Beatrice Martha
C Cumberbatch it was given to the Guild of Air Pilots
and Air Navigators (GAPAN) who now award it to individuals and
companies that make a significant contribution to airline and flying
safety.
The Cumberbatch
Trophy is historically, probably one of the Guild's
most precious possessions. Described by Richard Skinner of
Bond Street's Skinner & Co as "quite unique", the balloon-shaped
trophy depicting small planes in a turbulent sky with a triumphant lion
crowning it, was designed by silversmith, Omar Ramsden in
the 1930's.
As
well as the award itself we take the briefest glimpse in to Alice's
life. |
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The CUMBERBATCH Building, Trinity College Oxford
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Hugh Charles Cumberbatch was born in 1885 in Marylebone,
London. He was the eldest son of the eminent Aural Surgeon
Alphonzo Elkin Cumberbatch F.R.C.S., who was born in Bridgetown
Barbados 11 April 1847 and of Alice Lucy nee Moffatt.
Alphonzo and Hugh are descendants of John
Edward Cumberbatch the son of a mulatto-slave, Elizabeth,
once the property of Lawrence Trent Cumberbatch; and of
Julia nee Belgrave. Alphonzo's
father was John Belgrave Cumberbatch. Lawrence Trent
Cumberbatch was a joint owner of St. Nicholas Abbey in
St. Peter, Barbados until his death in December 1833. He was also
the cousin of Alice above.
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Edward Stephen Comberbatch, Watchmaker and
Barometer Maker
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Edward Stephen Comberbach was
born in 1853 in Blackburn, England and died in 1895 in Kent, England. The above are pictures of one of
his pocket watches. |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (1772-1834) is said to have
taken the name Silas Tomkyn Comberbache,
or Silas Tomken Cumberbatch.
Note the initials of both names - STC.
Enlisted in the Fifteenth
(King's) Light Dragoons, 1793, under the pseudonym "Silas Tomkyn
Comberbach", but was bought out by his brothers a year later
(reputedly following his discovery as an educated Gentleman, resulting
from his correction of a point of Latin being discussed by two
Officers as they entered the mess outside which he was on sentry
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Hortense Cumberbatch
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Hortense CUMBERBATCH played by
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, on the right of the
picture, who received nominations
for: Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress, Golden Globe and British Academy Award for her feature
film debut role in the 1995 British film "Secrets
and Lies". It won the
1996 Palme D’Or at Cannes, and Brenda
Blethyn, on the left of the picture, picked up the Best Actress award. |
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M.V. COMBERBACH
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M.V.
COMBERBACH a
120ft steel hulled cargo freighter
with a 260 ton payload intentionally sunk in 1984 off Cape Santa Maria
Beach, Bahamas as a diving attraction. She is lying upright, in 100 ft
of water having a bus in her forward cargo hold approx. 1 mile off the coast of The
Bahamas. Divers can swim through the wreck. She was ordered in 1947 by
ICI (formerly Brunner Mond Co. Ltd). Built in 1948 by W.J. Yarwood &
Sons Ltd., shipbuilders of Northwich, Cheshire, England. She was
registered in 1948 in the Port of Liverpool her 'Official Number'
being 182446. Her name, Comberbach, is a Cheshire
place-name. For ICI she carried 'products for the distribution
department, raw materials for the production department and refuse for
any department'. [M.V. represents Motor Vessel: a 'Part II'
registration on The Mercantile Navy List]. This
picture is reproduced with the kind permission of the
Northwich Salt Museum.
©Cheshire County Council.
More images of Northwich are available at:
http://www.saltmuseum.org.uk/more-photographs.htm |
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Actor
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Benedict Cumberbatch, played the
role of Stephen Hawking the mathematician and scientist as he
battled motor neurone disease. Benedict won the top acting award at the Montecarlo Television festival - the Golden Nymph award for the best
performance. Benedict was the lead actor in this BBC drama shown on
BBC2. |
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James "Jimmy" Cumberbatch
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Viv Anderson broke through as the first black
player to represent England at football in the 1970s, but rugby
league had already beaten this achievement by some fifty years when
Jimmy Cumberbatch ran out for
England. Focusing on sixteen of the greatest black, Asian, Maori and
Aboriginal players to play in British rugby league, this is also an
excellent general history of ethnic minorities in the sport.
The Glory of Their Times,
Crossing the Colour Line in Rugby League;
Edited by Phil Melling, Tony Collins.
To read the
cigarette cards.
To see
Jimmy's brother Val Cumberbatch in action in the England vs.
France game
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Dr. Elkin Percy Cumberbatch
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Elkin
Cumberbatch, son of Charles
Walter Cumberbatch and his wife, the former
Pamela Pillinger, was born at
Queen Charlton, Somerset, was educated at St. Paul's School, and
entered Keble College, Oxford, with an open science scholarship in
1899. He was a Christopher Welsh prize winner, and in 1904 was
awarded the senior university scholarship to St. Bartholomew's, where
his uncle, Elkin Alphonso
Cumberbatch, had been appointed as the first aural
surgeon in 1882.
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biography can be found on these pages. |
Richard Cumberbatch
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Richard
son of Dr. Elkin Percy Cumberbatch
joined the 137th Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and was killed
whilst a Prisoner of War at Nong Pladuk Camp Siam on 3rd December 1944.
Alice Beatrice Martha C Cumberbatch
was particularly fond of her nephew Richard and was
heartbroken to learn of his death.
Read the account of his death
from a friend to Richard's Mother dated 1st
December 1945. |
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Nellie
Cumberbatch wife of Daniel Joseph
Cumberbatch was a Justice of the Peace and in 1980 was
awarded the British Empire Medal (Civil Division). She was also a
well-known local councillor in Wigan. After her death in 1987 she
had a local street in Wigan named after her:
Cumberbatch Place.
British Empire Medal (Civil
Division) UNITED KINGDOM:
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the
Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to approve the award of the
British Empire Medal (Civil Division) to the undermentioned:
Nellie, Mrs. CUMBERBATCH, lately
Storekeeper, Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley, Ministry of Defence.
(source: London Gazette
Issue 48212 published on the
13 June 1980.
Page B24 of 32) |
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