Andrew Singleton to offer portrait of Uncle Tom Cobley from Widecombe Fair song
A portrait of Thomas Cobley Gent of Buttsford, Colebrooke (d.1844), is believed to portray ‘Old Uncle Tom Cobley’, from the tradition song Widecombe Fair, as a young boy.
The picture had been passed down through his family to a recent owner of one of Cobley’s farmhouse…