Robert William CUMBERBATCH b. 1821 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England d. 29 Mar 1876 Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey

1821 - 1876 (55 years)

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Name	Robert William CUMBERBATCH
Birth	1821	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Christening	9 Feb 1822	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Gender	Male
Death	29 Mar 1876	Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey
Burial	30 Mar 1876	British Cemetery, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey
Person ID	I22642	Patterson & Markham Family Tree
Last Modified	17 Mar 2019

Father	Abraham Parry CUMBERBATCH, Esquire, c. 29 Nov 1784, Saint Peter, Barbados, West Indies d. 10 Oct 1840, Tunbridge-Wells, Kent, England (Age ~ 55 years)
Mother	Caroline CHALONER, b. 2 Oct 1788, Guisborough, York, England d. 15 Oct 1842, Brompton, Middlesex, England (Age 54 years)
Family ID	F6872	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Children

1. Ellen Camilla Mary Ann CUMBERBATCH, b. 25 Feb 1845, Chiddingley, Sussex, England

d. 1 Dec 1914, Plymouth, Devon, England

(Age 69 years)

Family ID F8560 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Children

	1. William Ernest CUMBERBATCH, b. 1854 d. 1855 (Age 1 year)
	2. Gertrude Evelyn CUMBERBATCH, b. 3 Feb 1866, Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey d. 1924, Christchurch, Dorset, England (Age 57 years)
	3. Alice Maud CUMBERBATCH, b. 1868 d. 1869 (Age 1 year)
	4. Edith Catherine CUMBERBATCH, b. 1863 d. Abt 1867 (Age 4 years)
	5. George Charles CUMBERBATCH, b. 1865 d. Abt 1866 (Age 1 year)
	6. Arthur Herbert CUMBERBATCH, b. 1860 d. 1921 (Age 61 years)
	7. Henry Alfred CUMBERBATCH, c. 27 Jun 1858, Berdyans'k, Zaporiz'ka oblast, Ukraine d. 3 Dec 1918, Weymouth, Dorset, England, United Kingdom (Age ~ 60 years)
	8. Constance Louisa Caroline CUMBERBATCH, b. 1857 d. 1922 (Age 65 years)
	9. Robert Carlton CUMBERBATCH, b. 1855 d. 1868 (Age 13 years)
	10. Cyril James CUMBERBATCH, b. 1873 d. 1944 (Age 71 years)

Family ID F6878 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

father of twelve children

Letter from Robert William Cumberbatch dated 31 July 1848: We aresuffering greatly from the heat, the thermometer is generally 86degrees in the shade. The cholera still consumes in some localities.The deaths at Jassy during 40 days amounted to 12,000, the number isnow under 40 per day. My brother has taken a very nice house with agardnen in the adjoining Turkish Quarter which will serve for a summerresidence..... this privilege has lately been granted by the Sultan onaccount of the demand and scarcity of houses since the late fire (TheLloyds of Harley Street - SoG FH/LLO Vol1 pp 78-79).

26 October 1850 (Fanny Hart writes): Poor little Ellen ! ! I am assorry for the poor girl as you are but certainly will not be the firstto make advances to Robert's family especially as I have too many other claims upon me (The Lloyds of Harley Street - SoG FH/LLO Vol 1pp 79).

Consul at Smyrna (Marshall G.W. - Collections for a GenealogicalAccount of the Family of Comberbach).

Died in office aged 55 (L. Laurence Boyle, Cumberbatch Genealogy).

CUMBERBATCH Robert William Esq. 18 March [1885] The Will of RobertWilliam CUMBERBATCH late of Smyrna in Turkey Esquire Her Majesty’sConsul at Smyrna who died 29 March 1876 at Smyrna was proved at thePrincipal Registry by Henry James HANSON and George Henry CLIFTON bothof Constantinople in Turkey Esquires the Executors. Personal Estate£440 10s 8d in England.

RWC went to Constantinople on 1 June 1845 as secretary to his half-brother Abraham Carleton Cumberbatch, the Consul-General until 22 May 1855. He became Acting Second Consul 25 May 1855 to 30 June 1856, third Vice Consul to September 1857 and was appointed Consul at Berdiansk, Sea of Azoff 12 January 1858. He went to Smyrna 25 April 1864. Appointed Post Office Agent, Smyrna 25 September 1872.