Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 –
Bonaly
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, Midlothian, 26 April/18 July 1854) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure. He served as
Solicitor General for Scotland
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between 1830 and 1834.
Background and Education
His mother Janet Rannie was as sister-in-law of the influential Lord Melville, through her sister Elizabeth, and his father,
Archibald Cockburn
Archibald Cockburn (1738 in Edinburgh, Midlothian – 20 June 1820) was a Scottish judge.
He lived at Caroline Park House north of Edinburgh.
Family
Son of Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen and wife (m. 17 August 1735) Martha Dundas, daughter ...
University of Edinburgh
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.
His brother, John Cockburn FRSE (died 1862), was a wine merchant and founder of Cockburn's of
Leith
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.
Literary career
Cockburn contributed regularly to the '' Edinburgh Review''. In this popular magazine of its day he is described as: "rather below the middle height, firm, wiry and muscular, inured to active exercise of all kinds, a good swimmer, an accomplished skater, an intense lover of the fresh breezes of heaven. He was the model of a high-bred Scotch gentleman. He spoke with a
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breadth of accent. Cockburn was one of the most popular men north of the Tweed."Monuments and Statues of Edinburgh, Michael T.R.B. Turnbull (Chambers)p. 53 He was a member of the famous
Speculative Society
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, to which
Sir Walter Scott
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Francis Jeffrey
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey (23 October 1773 – 26 January 1850) was a Scottish judge and literary critic.
Life
He was born at 7 Charles Street near Potterow in south Edinburgh, the son of George Jeffrey, a clerk in the Court of Session ...
belonged.
The extent of Cockburn's literary ability only became known after he had passed his 70th year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the ''Memorials of his Time'', which appeared posthumously in 1856. His published work continued with his ''Journal'', published in 1874. These constitute an autobiography of the writer interspersed with notices of manners, public events, and sketches of his contemporaries, of great interest and value.
Legal and judicial career
Cockburn entered the
Faculty of Advocates
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in 1800, and attached himself, not to the party of his relatives, who could have afforded him most valuable patronage, but to the Whig party, and that at a time when it held out few inducements to men ambitious of success in life. He became a distinguished advocate, and ultimately a judge. He was one of the leaders of the Whig party in Scotland in its days of darkness prior to the
Reform Act of 1832
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, and was a close friend of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. He was the defence lawyer for Helen McDougal, Burke's wife, in the trial for the
Burke and Hare murders
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, and won her acquittal.
On the accession of
Earl Grey
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's
ministry
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in 1830 he became
Solicitor General for Scotland
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. During his time here he drafted the First Scottish Reform Bill. In 1834 he was raised to the bench, and on taking his seat as a Judge in the Court of Session he adopted the title of Lord Cockburn as a Scottish Lord of Session.Peter Beauclerk Dewar, editor, ''Burkes Landed Gentry of Great Britain – The Kingdom in Scotland, 19th ed. – volume 1'' (Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage and Gentry LLC, 2001), volume 1, page 884.
Conservation
Whilst Lord Cockburn's name is usually associated with building conservation, this reputation is somewhat misplaced as his interest was very selective. In 1845 he purchased the entire estate of
Bonaly
Bonaly () is an area on the south-western outskirts of Edinburgh and the northern slopes of the Pentland Hills, lying within the Parish of Colinton. It is a mix of mainly post-war housing, woodland, pasture-land and heather moorland. Bonaly Bur ...
, south-west of Edinburgh. He rebuilt the farmhouse in a romantic fashion, adding a tower, and renaming it Bonaly Tower. However, the rest of the village (which appears to have dated from the 17th century or older) was rased to the ground to improve views from his new house. There is no record of what became of the inhabitants of the village.
Family
Cockburn married Elizabeth Macdowall (
Glasgow
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, Lanarkshire, 1 March 1786 – 1857), daughter of James Macdowall and his second wife Margaret Jamieson, in
Edinburgh
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, Midlothian, on 12 March 1811. As was common in the period he had both a
town house
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Bonaly
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, on the south-west edge of
Edinburgh
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. His large town house at 14
Charlotte Square
300px, Robert Adam's palace-fronted north side
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, in the west end of the city, was designed by
Robert Adam
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. They had five daughters and six sons:
* Margaret Day Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 24 January 1812, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1812 – 1818) (buried in St Cuthberts churchyard in Edinburgh
* Jane Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 1813, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 July 1813 – )
* Dr. Archibald William Cockburn, FRCSE (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 5 December 1814, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 23 December 1814 –
Murrayfield
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, Midlothian, 13 January 1862), Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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, married at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 12 March 1844 to Mary Ann Balfour (2 November 1816 – ?), and had four sons:
** Henry Cockburn (1849 – ?)
** James Balfour Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 July 1851 – ?)
** Archibald Francis Cockburn (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 8 November 1853 – ?)
** Moncrieff Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 September 1855 – ?)
* James Macdowell Cockburn (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 7 March 1816 – ?)
* Graham Cockburn, a daughter (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 7 March 1817 – ?), married Rev. Robert Walter Stewart (later
Moderator of the General Assembly
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of the Free Church of Scotland)
* George Ferguson Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 31 January 1818 – 1866), married to Sarah Charlotte Bishop, and had four daughters:
** Elizabeth Frances Cockburn (1845–1925), married to Henry Charles Biddulph Cotton Raban (1837 – Chittagong,
Bengal
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, 20 March 1871), who was with the Bengal Civil Service, and had one daughter:
*** Catherine Charlotte Raban (Chittagong, Bengal, 12 June 1870 – 1954), married at Axebridge, Somerset, in 1893 to Arthur Waugh (1866–1943) and had two sons,
Alec Waugh
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and
Evelyn Waugh
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** Isabella Graham Cockburn (c. 1848 – Kensington, London, 5 January 1926), married on 31 January 1894 as his third wife to Sir
James Shaw Hay
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Family
He was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Pasley Hay (1 May 1801 - 28 June 1858) and wife (married 24 February 1824) Georgette Heine Arnaud ( ...
(25 October 1839 – 20 June 1924), without issue
** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn (
Calcutta
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Essex
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and for Suffolk, son of James St. George Burke and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue
** Georgina Maria Joanna Cockburn, married
Spencer Campbell Thomson
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FRSE FFA in 1869
* Henry Day Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 21 April 1820 – ?), married at
South Yarra
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, Victoria, in 1857 to Mary Ann Matherley
* Lawrence Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1822 – Brighton, Victoria, 2 September 1871), a squatter, married at Brighton, Victoria, in 1859 to Annie Maria Smith, and had one son:
** Henry Cockburn (
Melbourne
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, 1862 – ?)
* Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (
Edinburgh
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, Midlothian, 8 January 1825 – Brentford, London, 10 July 1893), a Judge in
India
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and with the Bengal Civil Service, and wife (Calcutta or Westbury, Tasmania, 25 January 1855) Elizabeth Anne (Eliza Ann) Pitcairn ( Hobart, Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap. Hobart, Tasmania, 7 November 1831 – Wycombe, Oxfordshire, 1923), daughter of Robert Pitcairn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 17 July 1802 – Hobart, Tasmania, 1868) (son of David Pitcairn and Mary Henderson) and wife (m. Hobart, Tasmania, 30 September 1830) Dorothy/Dorothea Jessy Dumas, and had five daughters and two sons:
** Helen Macdowall Cockburn (Calcutta, 14 June 1857, bap. Calcutta, 17 July 1857 – ?)
** Henry Cockburn (Calcutta, 2 March 1859 – 1927?)
** Elizabeth Pitcairn Cockburn (Calcutta, 20 March 1863, bap. Calcutta, 25 April 1863 – ?)
** Robert Pitcairn Cockburn (Bengal, 1865, bap. Sylhet, Bengal, 7 December 1865 – ?), married at
South Stoneham
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, Hampshire, in 1909 to Elinor Francis Mary Bellett (31 January 1881 – 16 September 1975), and had three sons and one daughter:
*** Francis Bellett Cockburn (Brentford, London, 31 July 1910 – ?)
*** Robert Waring Pitcairn Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1911 – ?), married to Jean Elizabeth Swinnerton and had one son and one daughter:
**** David Charles Alexander Cockburn
**** Susan Elinor Cockburn
*** Henry Dundas Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1913 – 4 December 1998), Medical Superintendent at the
Royal London Hospital
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, London
*** Elinor Phyllis Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1915 – ?)
** Jane Cockburn (Bengal, c. 1868 – ?)
** Margaret G. Cockburn (Bengal, c. 1870 – ?)
** Gertrude C. Cockburn (
Germany
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, c. 1875 – ?)
* Elizabeth Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 30 June 1826 – 6 April 1908), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 27 December 1848 to Thomas Cleghorn FRSE (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 3 March 1818 – 18 June 1874), a practising Advocate, who rose to be Sheriff of Argyle.
* Johanna Richardson Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 14 January 1831 – 1888), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 21 October 1856 to her cousin Archibald David Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 6 September 1826 – 1886), son of John Cockburn and wife Eliza Dewar, and had issue
The authors
Alec Waugh
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and
Evelyn Waugh
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, the journalist
Claud Cockburn
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,
Claudia Cockburn
Claudia Cockburn Flanders, OBE (11 February 1933 – 25 June 1998) was an American-British disability activist who spent much of her working life in the United Kingdom.
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(wife of actor
Michael Flanders
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) and author
Sarah Caudwell
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were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists
Laura Flanders
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,
Stephanie Flanders
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Emma Tennant
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),
Andrew Cockburn
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Early life
Born in the London suburb of Willesden in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father ...
(husband of journalist
Leslie Cockburn
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) and
Patrick Cockburn
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(son-in-law of Bishop
Hugh Montefiore
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) and actress
Olivia Wilde
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(former wife of
Tao Ruspoli
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).Monuments and Statues of Edinburgh, Michael T.R.B. Turnbull (Chambers) p. 54
Bonaly
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, near
Edinburgh
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and is buried in the city's Dean Cemetery. A statue of him by local sculptor
William Brodie
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stands in the north-east corner of
Parliament Hall
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.
Cockburn Street, built in the 1850s to connect the
High Street
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Waverley station
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, is also named after him. The building at the foot of the street, formerly the "Cockburn Hotel", bears his image in profile in a stone above the entrance.
Cockburn had an interest in
architectural conservation
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, particularly in Edinburgh, where several important historic buildings such as John Knox's House and
Tailors' Hall
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in the
Cowgate
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owe their continued existence to the change in attitude towards conservation which he helped bring about. The
Cockburn Association
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The Scottish judge Henry Cockburn (1779–1854) was a prominent campaigner t ...
(Edinburgh Civic Trust), founded in 1875, was named in his honour.
Cockburn was played by
Russell Hunter
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in ''Cocky'', a one-man play which was effectively a dramatisation of his memoirs, broadcast on BBC Scotland. It ended with his closing speech to the jury in the Burke and Hare trial.
Times Literary Supplement
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, 18 January 2006
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Henry Thomas
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