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There is a framed photograph of Robert Cocks hanging on the wall in one of the Old Buckenham almshouses The blog editor did take a quick photograph of this picture and it shows what our village benefactor looked like in 1861. If you look at the details on the print it shows it was taken by a firm called Maull and Polyblank.
Henry Maull formed several partnerships that were based at London addresses and the dates of Maull and Polyblank were 1856 to 1865.
They appear to have been amongst the top photographers of their day and took the portraits of many famous people. Robert Stevenson, Rowland Hill, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin and David Livingstone were some of their clients.
So it seems Robert Cocks, as one would expect, used the society photographer of the day.
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