Memorial window to R W Cochran Patrick in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Robert William Cochran-Patrick LLD (5 February 1842 – 15 March 1897) was a Scottish

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politician who sat in the

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from 1880 to 1885. Cochran-Patrick was the only son of William Charles Richard Cochran of Woodside in Beith, Ayrshire, and his wife Agnes Cochran, daughter of William Cochran of Ladyland, Ayrshire. He was educated privately and then at the

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. He was a J.P. for Ayrshire and Renfrewshire and a Deputy Lieutenant for Ayrshire.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
/ref> At the 1880 general election Cochran-Patrick was elected

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for Ayrshire North. He held the seat until 1885. He was Permanent Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1887 to 1892 when he retired owing to ill-health. He was vice-chairman of the Scottish Fishery Board in 1896. In 1876 he published his first book, entitled 'Records of the Coinage of Scotland from the earliest Period to the Union,' in 2 volumes. This concluded the a vast proportion of Scottish coins were made from natice gold and silver.Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.2 p.269 Cochran-Patrick died at the age of 55. Cochran-Patrick married Eleanora Hunter daughter of Robert Hunter of Hunter, Ayrshire in 1866.

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* 1842 births 1897 deaths UK MPs 1880–1885 Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge {{Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub