Hedley Adams Mobbs


Hedley Adams Mobbs was a British architect who worked in Boston, Lincolnshire. Apart from his work as an architect he was also worked as cartoonist for the satirical magazine Punch. He was also a crack rifleman who took part in competitions at Bisley, played football for Cambridge City, a ragtime pianist, beekeeper, horticulturalist and artist. In later life he invented a mechanism for dipping car headlights. He was also a leading philatelist writing standard works on the subject and advising on the formation of the Royal Stamp collection.

Career

Mobbs was born at Oulton near Lowestoft. He was articled to an architect and surveyor in Great Yarmouth. He was probably the brother of Sydney Wilfred Mobbs, a Lowestoft architect. Hedley Adams Mobbs served in the Royal Flying Corp during the First World War. In 1917 he married Lily Marsden. He probably moved to Boston after the First World War, where his office was at 16a Wide Bargate. In 1939 he convened a committee in Boston to receive Czech Jewish Kindertransport children. In retirement he moved to Sleaford and was buried in Quarrington churchyard.

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