William Frederick Geikie-Cobb (born Danbury 1857 – died London 1941) was an Anglican priest and author,Amongst others he wrote "The Letters of St Bernard", 1890; "Origines Judaicae, 1895; Theology Old and New, 1901; "Some notes on the church of Saint Ethelburga the Virgin within Bishopsgate", 1904; "The book of Psalms", 1905; Mysticism and the Creed, 1914; The Path of the Soul, 1923; "The New Testament and Divorce", 1924; and "The Humanist's Hornbook", 1934 British Library web site accessed 10:57 GMT Wednesday, 9 July 2017 most notable for his willingness to remarry divorced people in church.radar.brookesThe Church And Divorce. W. F. GEIKIE-COBB. D.D.The Times (London, England), Friday, 17 November 1922; pg. 11; Issue 43191Spectator archive
Geikie-Cobb was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, ChelmsfordGEIKIE-COBB, Rev. William Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 9 Aug 2017 and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1883. He served curacies at Send, Addlestone, Winchester and Kentish Town. He was rector of St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate from 1900 until his death.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929–30 p 478 London: Oxford University Press, 1929 During his tenure he was able to officiate at the remarriage of many divorced people,Centre for Reconciliation and Peace partly because the then Bishop of London had increasingly lost control of discipline within the diocese."Geoffrey Fisher: Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945–1961" Hein, D. Cambridge : James Clarke & Co., 2008
He died on 14 December 1941."Obituaries". The Times (London, England), Monday, 15 December 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49109.
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