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John Cockburn (writer)
John Cockburn may refer to: * John Cockburn of Ormiston (died 1583), supporter of the Scottish Reformation * John Cockburn (died 1623), Scottish landowner and lawyer * Colonel John Cockburn (c1620–c1680), 17th-century Scottish officer * John Cockburn (theologian) (1652–1729) * John Cockburn (Scottish politician) (died 1758) * John Cockburn (Australian politician) (1850–1929) * Jack Cockburn Jack Cockburn (26 December 1911 - 21 September 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Cockburn ... (1911–1990), Australian Rules footballer * John Cockburn (test pilot) (1937–2017) See also * John Coburn (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Cockburn, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn Of Ormiston
John Cockburn, (d. 1583) laird of Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, was an early supporter of the Scottish Reformation. He was the eldest son of William Cockburn of Ormiston and Janet Somerville. John was usually called "Ormiston." During his lifetime there was also a laird of Ormiston in Teviotdale near Eckford, a member of the rival Hepburn family. A Scottish Protestant in the Rough Wooing John Cockburn was a prominent Protestant and also on good terms with England, having a licence to trade there during the war of the Rough Wooing. He was pardoned for communing with the English during Lord Hertford's expedition in 1544. John Knox was tutor to one of his sons, and the Protestant preacher and martyr George Wishart was arrested by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, the Sheriff of Haddingtonshire, at his House of Ormiston on 16 January 1546. After negotiation Bothwell took Wishart away to nearby Elphinstone Castle. Soon after on the same night, soldiers of the Governor of Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (died 1623)
John Cockburn of Ormiston (died 1623) was a Scottish lawyer and landowner. Career He was the son of John Cockburn of Ormiston and Alison Sandilands (died 1584), a daughter of Sir John Sandilands of Calder. His older brother Alexander Cockburn died in 1563, his epitaph by George Buchanan recording his travels and achievements engraved on a brass plate is at the National Museum of Scotland. John Cockburn succeeded his father as laird of Ormiston in East Lothian in 1583. James VI came to Ormiston to hunt deer on 22 November 1588. Cockburn was a member of the Privy Council and the council ruling Scotland when James VI was in Norway and Denmark. He was knighted at the coronation of Anne of Denmark on 17 May 1590 and at Parliament in 1592. Cockburn was Lord Justice Clerk after Lewis Bellenden. On 26 October 1591, during the North Berwick witch trials James VI gave him a commission to torture and punish those accused of witchcraft who refused to confess. Cockburn questioned David Grah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (Scottish Officer)
Colonel John Cockburn was an officer in the Covenanter, Scottish Covenanter army in the late 1640s and early 1650s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In this capacity he led Scottish Lowlands, Lowland soldiers against James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Montrose's Scottish Royalist forces during the First English Civil War (1642-1646), when the Covenanter parliament of Scotland was allied with the English Roundhead, Parliamentarians against Charles I of England, King Charles I. Colonel Cockburn led the colourfully defiant but futile Scottish resistance at Hume Castle during the Third English Civil War (1649-1651), when a Parliamentary army led by Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland after its Covenanter government had made an uneasy alliance with Charles II of England, King Charles II. Family background and the choice of a military career John Cockburn was born in about 1620, the third son of William Cockburn of Choicelee and Sybilla Sinclair. A military career would have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (theologian)
John Cockburn (20 April 1652 – 20 November 1729) was a Scottish theologian. Early life He was the son of John Cockburn, a gentleman of some estate in the north of Scotland, who married a sister of Patrick Scougal of Salton, afterwards bishop of Aberdeen. In 1666 he was entered at Edinburgh University, but was taken thence by his uncle the bishop, and entered in November 1668 at King's College, Aberdeen, as "Joh. Cobron, Edinb.", pursuing his studies under Scougall's eye, and graduating A.M. on 20 June 1671. In 1673 he became tutor to Lord Keith, son of George, Earl Marischal, and remained in this situation till 1675, when he was ordained by his uncle, who presented him on 14 February 1676 to the living of Udny, Aberdeenshire. He was instituted on 21 (or 31) May, but not without "great tumult", the laird of Udny claiming the right to present. In the following August (before the 15th) his cousin Cockburn, laird of Langton, Berwickshire (a Presbyterian whom the bishop of Edinburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (Scottish Politician)
John Cockburn ( ; – 12 November 1758) of Ormiston, East Lothian, was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1702 to 1707 and as a Whig in the British House of Commons for 34 years from 1707 to 1741. Life Cockburn was the nephew of Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Justice Clerk, who had no male heir and from whom he inherited the Ormiston estate in 1735. In 1736 he laid out the "model village" of Ormiston which was set up to encourage craft industries such as brewing, distilling and weaving. However, this, and his improvements to the estate as a whole, bankrupted Cockburn, and he was forced to sell the entire estate and village to the Charles Hope, the Earl of Hopetoun.Scottish Garden Buildings by Tim Buxbaum p.11 He is known as the father of Scottish husbandry. In 1702, Cockburn became a Shire Commissioner for Haddington in the Parliament of Scotland and took an active interest in accomplishing the union. He was the first represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (Australian Politician)
Sir John Alexander Cockburn (23 August 185026 November 1929) was Premier of South Australia from 27 June 1889 to 18 August 1890. Early life Cockburn was born in Corsbie, Berwickshire, Scotland, in 1850 to Thomas Cockburn, farmer, and his wife Isabella, née Wright. His father died in France in 1855, and his mother migrated to South Australia in 1867 with three of the four children. Cockburn remained in the UK and was educated at Highgate School, and King's College London, he obtained the degree of M.D. London, with first class honours and gold medal. In 1875, he married Sarah Holdway (the daughter of Forbes Scott Brown), and they had one son and one daughter. In 1879, he emigrated to South Australia and set up practice at Jamestown in the mid North. Political career In 1878, Cockburn was elected as the first mayor of the Corporate Town of Jamestown. In that role he lobbied the Government of South Australia to construct a railway line to the New South Wales border to tap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Cockburn
Jack Cockburn (26 December 1911 - 21 September 1990) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Cockburn started his SANFL career with South Adelaide in 1934, having previously played for Blyth as a teenager and young man in the Stanley Football Association, where he won the A. E. Fryar Medal a record three times. He was a member of South Adelaide premiership teams in 1935 and 1938. The 1935 season also saw him win a Magarey Medal for the league's best and fairest player. By the time he retired in 1947 he had played 167 SANFL games and represented South Australia seven times at interstate football. He is a half back flanker in South Adelaide's official 'Team of the Century' and was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2003. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cockburn (test Pilot)
John Jeremy Cockburn OBE (14 October 1937 – 3 April 2017) was a Scottish test pilot known for his flights in the English Electric Lightning. Early life John Cockburn was born on 14 October 1937 at Greenlaw, Berwickshire, the son of a farmer. He was educated at the Loretto School, Musselbrough. He was a keen horseman, his uncle was the trainer Stewart Wright, and he won the Berwickshire point-to-point steeplechase in 1960 and 1964.John Cockburn. '''', 13 May 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017. Marriage In 1964 he married Amy Thompson, known as Judy, after they met water-skiing at Hoselaw L ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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