Claude Delaval Cobham

Claude Delaval Cobham (30 June 1842-1915) was a British Colonial official in Cyprus from 1878 to 1908, from 1879 until 1907 he acted as the District Commissioner of Larnaca.

He studied Literae Humaniores at University College, Oxford from 1861 until 1865 and then did an M.A. in 1869. He was one of the founding members of the Committee of the Cyprus Museum established in 1882. Additionally he published the book An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus, with a compilation of bibliography that also included sections on numismatics, epigraphy, language, cartography, consular reports etc. Furthermore his book A Handbook of Cyprus with J. T. Hutchinson focused on the geological and geographical characteristics of the island, as well as agriculture, commerce, industry, irrigation works, forests, fisheries, harbours, finance, government and other information.

Publications Cobham, C. D. & Ohnefalsch Richter, M. (1883). A Pre-Historic Building at Salamis. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 4, 111–116. Cobham, C. D. (1897). The Story of Umm Ḥarám. The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 81–101. Cobham, C. D. (1889). Cypriot Words in ancient Greek. The Journal of Cyprian Studies, 19–23. Cobham, C. D. (1889). An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus. Nicosia. 2nd Ed. Cobham, C. D. (1894). An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus. Nicosia: Government Printing Office. 3rd Ed. Cobham, Claude Delaval. Umm Ḥarám. Pamphlets. printed by Stephen Austin and Sons, 1897. Graziani, Antonio Maria (1899). De Bello Cyprio. Edited by C. D. Cobham. London: Pamphlets. St. Vincent’s Press. Cobham, C. D. (1900). An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus. Nicosia: Printed, for the Compiler, at the G.P.O.. 4th Ed. Hutchinson, J. T. & Cobham, C. D. (1907). A Handbook of Cyprus. London: Edward Stanford. 5th Ed. Cobham, C. D. (1908). Excerpta Cypria. Materials for a History of Cyprus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cobham, C. D. (1909). Travels in the Island of Cyprus. Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Mariti by Claude Delaval Cobham. With Contemporary Accounts to the Sieges of Nicosia and Famagusta. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cobham, C. D. (1910). The churches and saints of Cyprus. London. Cobham, C. D. (1911). The Patriarchs of Constantinople. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cobham, C. D. (1929). An Attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus (G. Jeffery, Ed.; New Edition). Government Printing Office.