Hedley Adams Mobbs


Hedley Adams Mobbs was a British architect who worked in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Apart from his work as an architect he 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 Town, a ragtime pianist, beekeeper, horticulturalist and artist. In later life he invented a device for dipping car headlights. He was also a philatelist writing standard works on the subject and advising on the formation of the Royal Stamp collection.

Career

Hedley Mobbs was born at Oulton Broad, near Lowestoft. He was the younger brother of Sydney Mobbs. He was articled to John 'Concrete' Cockrill, the architect and surveyor in Great Yarmouth. In 1917 he married Lily Marsden.
He joined the nascent Royal Air Force at Cranwell towards the end of First World War. He moved to Boston in 1930, where his office was at 18a High Street. In 1939 he, along with Ralph Broadley and Herbert Butcher MP convened a committee in Boston to receive Czech Jewish Kindertransport children. In retirement in 1956 he moved to Sleaford where he took up bee-keeping and horticulture. He resigned as the official architect and a trustee of the Trustee Savings Bank. He died in Grantham Hospital 10 October 1971 and was buried in Quarrington churchyard.

Works

Also the re-building of The John Bull Tyre Co. factory at 77 Evington Valley Road, Leicester 1928.
Private residences in Leicester and Woodhall Spa but mainly in Boston, notably "Hemsby" Horncastle Road.

Literature