Admiral Thomas Cochrane,
10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess
do Maranhão
, GCB, ODM (14 December 1775 – 31
October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778
and 1831, was a senior British
naval flag officer
and radical politician. He was
a daring and successful
captain
of the
Napoleonic Wars, leading the
French to nickname him 'Le Loup des Mers' ('The Sea Wolf' or 'The
Wolf of the Seas').
He was dismissed from the Royal Navy in 1814, following a conviction for
fraud on the Stock Exchange and he then served in the rebel navies
of Chile
, Brazil
and Greece
during their
respective wars of independence. In 1832, he was reinstated
in the
Royal Navy with the rank of
Rear Admiral of the Blue. After being
promoted several times following his reinstatement, he died in 1860
with the rank of
Admiral of the
Red, and the
honorary title of
Rear-Admiral of the
United Kingdom. His life and exploits served as inspiration for
the naval fiction of nineteenth and twentieth-century novelists,
particularly
Horatio Hornblower
and
Patrick O'Brian's
Jack Aubrey.
Family

Coat of arms of the Marquess of
Maranhão.
Thomas
Cochrane was born at Annsfield, near Hamilton
, South
Lanarkshire, Scotland
, the son of
Archibald
Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and Anna Gilchrist.
She was
the daughter of Captain James
Gilchrist and Ann Roberton, the
daughter of Major John Roberton,
16th Laird of Earnock
.
Cochrane had six brothers. One was Major William Erskine Cochrane
of the 15th
Dragoon Guards, who
served with distinction under
Sir John Moore in the
Peninsular War. Another was Captain
Archibald
Cochrane.
Cochrane was descended from lines of Scottish aristocracy and
military service on both sides of his family. Through his uncle,
Admiral Sir Alexander Forrester
Inglis Cochrane the sixth son of the 8th Earl of Dundonald,
Cochrane was cousin to his namesake Sir
Thomas John Cochrane who also pursued a
naval career and became
Governor of
Newfoundland and later
Vice-Admiral of the
United Kingdom. The family fortune had been spent by 1793 and
the family estate was sold to cover debts.
Early life
Cochrane
spent much of his early life in Culross
, Fife, where
his family had an estate. There is now a bust in his honour
outside the Culross Town House.
Through the influence of his uncle,
Alexander Cochrane, he was listed as a
member of the crew on the books of four Royal Navy ships starting
when he was five years old. This common, though unlawful practice
(called false muster), was a tactic to have on record some of the
length of service necessary before he could be made an officer, if
and when he joined the Navy. His father secured him a commission in
the
British Army at an early age, but
Cochrane preferred the Navy, which he joined in 1793 upon the
outbreak of the
French
Revolutionary Wars.
Service in the Royal Navy
Cochrane
first served in the Baltic
Sea
aboard a Sixth-rate
frigate, the 28-gun HMS Hind, commanded by his uncle,
Captain Alexander
Cochrane. In 1795, he was appointed
acting lieutenant on
the 38-gun
Fifth-rate HMS Thetis, also under his
uncle's command. The following year he was commissioned in the rank
of lieutenant on 27 May 1796, after passing the examination.
After
several transfers in America and a return home, he found himself as
8th Lieutenant on Lord Keith's flagship HMS
Barfleur in the Mediterranean Sea
in 1798.
During his service on
Barfleur, Cochrane received a
court martial for showing disrespect
to
Philip Beaver, the ship's
first lieutenant. Though the board found
him innocent, the board did reprimand him for flippancy. This was
the first public manifestation of a pattern of Cochrane being
unable to get along with many of his superiors, subordinates,
employers and colleagues in several navies and Parliament, and even
those with whom he had much in common and who should have been
natural allies. For instance, his behavior led to a long enmity
with
John Jervis,
1st Earl of St Vincent.
In 1799,
Cochrane commanded the prize crew taking the captured French vessel
Généreux to
the British base at Mahón
. The
ship was almost lost in a storm, with Cochrane and his brother
Archibald going aloft in place of a crew that were mostly ill. On
28 March 1800, Cochrane, having been promoted to
commander, took command of the
brig sloop HMS
Speedy. Later that year, a Spanish warship disguised
as a merchant ship almost captured him.
He escaped by flying a
Danish
flag and
fending off a boarding by claiming his ship was
plague-ridden. Chased by an enemy frigate, and knowing it
would follow him in the night by any glimmer of light from the
Speedy, he placed a lantern on a barrel and let it float
away. The enemy frigate followed the light and
Speedy
escaped.
In
February 1801, at Malta
, he got into
an argument with a French Royalist officer
at a fancy dress ball. Cochrane came dressed as a common
sailor, and the Royalist mistook him for one. This argument led to
Cochrane's only
duel. Cochrane wounded the
French officer with a pistol shot but was himself unharmed.
One of his most notable exploits was the capture of the Spanish
xebec frigate
El Gamo, on 6 May 1801.
El Gamo carried 32 guns and 319 men, compared with
Speedy's 14 guns and 54 men. Cochrane flew an American
flag to approach so closely to
El Gamo that its guns could
not depress to fire on the
Speedy's hull. This left the
Spanish with no option but to board. However, whenever the Spanish
were about to board, Cochrane would pull away briefly, and fire on
the concentrated boarding parties with his ship's guns. Eventually,
Cochrane boarded the
Gamo, despite still being outnumbered
about five to one, and captured her.
In
Speedy's 13-month cruise, Cochrane captured, burned, or
drove ashore 53 ships before three French ships of the line under
Admiral
Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him on 3 July 1801. During
his time as a prisoner Linois often asked him for advice and
Cochrane later referred to how polite he was in his autobiography.
A few days later he was exchanged for the second captain of another
French ship. Then, on 8 August 1801, he received a promotion to the
rank of
post-captain.
After the
Peace of Amiens, Cochrane
attended the
University of
Edinburgh. Upon the resumption of war in 1803, St Vincent
assigned him in October 1803 to command of a Sixth Rate ship which
was the 22-gun HMS
Arab. This ship had poor handling,
colliding with Royal Navy ships on two occasions (the
Bloodhound and the
Abundance), and afforded
Cochrane no opportunities. In his autobiography he would compare
the
Arab to a
collier.
Despite
this, he still managed to intercept and board an American merchant
ship, the Chatham, and create an international incident,
leading to the consignment of HMS Arab and her commander
to fishing fleet protection duties beyond Orkney
in the
North
Sea
.
In 1804, the new government of
William Pitt the Younger removed St
Vincent and in December Cochrane received an appointment to command
of the new 32-gun
frigate HMS Pallas, in which he undertook
a series of notable exploits over the following eighteen
months.
In August 1806, he took command of the 38-gun frigate
HMS Imperieuse, formerly the
Spanish frigate
Iphigenia. One of his midshipmen was
Frederick Marryat, who later wrote
fictionalized accounts of his adventures with Cochrane.
In
Imperieuse Cochrane raided the Mediterranean coast of
France.
In 1808, Cochrane and a Spanish guerrilla
force captured the fortress of Mongat, which sat astride the road
between Gerona and Barcelona
. This delayed General
Duhesme's French army for a month. On another raid
Cochrane copied code books from a signal station, leaving behind
the originals so the French would believe them uncompromised. When
Imperieuse ran short of water, she sailed up the estuary
of the
Rhone to replenish.
When a
French army marched into Catalonia
and besieged Rosas
, Cochrane
took part in the defence of the town by occupying and defending
Fort Trinidad ('Castell de la Trinitat') for a number of weeks
before the fall of the city forced him to leave; Cochrane was one
of the last two men to quit the fort.
While captain of
Speedy,
Pallas, and
Imperieuse, Cochrane became arguably the most effective
practitioner of coastal warfare during the period.
Not only did he
attack shore installations such as the Martello tower at Son Bou
on Minorca
, but captured enemy ships in harbor by leading his
men in boats in "cutting out" operations. He was a
meticulous planner of every operation, which limited casualties
among his men and maximized the chances of success.
In 1809,
he commanded the attack by a flotilla of fire
ships on Rochefort
, as part of the Battle of the Basque
Roads. The attack did some damage, but Cochrane blamed
Admiral
Gambier,
the fleet commander, for missing the opportunity to destroy the
French fleet. As a result of expressing his opinion publicly,
Cochrane then spent some time without a naval command.
Political career
In June
1806, Cochrane stood for the House of Commons
on a ticket of parliamentary reform (a movement
which would later bring about the Reform
Acts) for the potwalloper borough of
Honiton.
This was exactly the kind of borough Cochrane wished to abolish;
votes were mostly sold to the highest bidder. Cochrane offered
nothing and lost the election. In October 1806, he again ran for
Parliament in Honiton and won. Cochrane initially denied that he
paid any bribes, but Cochrane himself revealed in a Parliamentary
debate ten years afterward that he had paid ten
guineas (£10 10s) per voter through
Mr. Townshend, local headman and banker.

Portrait of Lord Cochrane in
1807
In May 1807, Cochrane was elected by
Westminster in a
more democratic election. Cochrane campaigned for parliamentary
reform, allied with such
Radicals as
William Cobbett,
Sir Francis Burdett and
Henry Hunt. His outspoken criticism
of the conduct of the war and the corruption in the navy made him
powerful enemies in the government. His criticism of Admiral
Gambier's conduct at the
Battle of the Basque Roads was so
severe that Gambier demanded a
court-martial to clear his name. This made him
important enemies in the
Admiralty.
In 1810,
Sir Francis
Burdett, a Member of
Parliament and political ally, had barricaded himself in his
home at Piccadilly
, London, resisting arrest by the House of
Commons
. Cochrane went to assist Burdett's defence
of the house. His approach to this, however, was essentially
similar to the approach he had taken in defending forts against
enemy attack and would have led to numerous deaths amongst the
arresting officers and at least partial destruction of Burdett's
house, along with much of Piccadilly. On realising what Cochrane
planned, Burdett and his allies took steps to end the siege.
Cochrane, though popular with the public, was unable to get along
with his colleagues in the House of Commons, let alone the
government. Usually, he had little success in promoting his causes,
though there were exceptions: in 1812 he successfully confronted
the Admiralty's prize court.
His conviction in the
Great Stock Exchange Fraud of
1814 (see below) resulted in Parliament expelling him on 5 July
1814. However, his constituents in the seat of Westminster
re-elected him at the resulting
by-election on 16 July. He held this seat until
1818. In 1818, Cochrane last speech in Parliament advocated
parliamentary reform.
In 1830, Cochrane initially expressed interest but then declined.
Not only had Lord Brougham's brother decided to run for the seat,
but also Cochrane thought it would look bad for him to be publicly
supporting a government from which he sought pardon for his fraud
conviction.
In 1831, his father died and Cochrane became the 10th
Earl of Dundonald.
As such, he was
entitled to sit in the House of Lords
, but no longer in the House of
Commons.
Marriage and children
In 1812, Cochrane married Katherine Frances Corbet Barnes, a
beautiful orphan more than twenty years his junior. This was an
elopement and a civil ceremony, due to the opposition of his
wealthy uncle Basil Cochrane, who disinherited his nephew as a
result.
Katherine, whom Cochrane called 'Kate',
'Kitty' or 'Mouse' in letters to her, often accompanied her husband
on his campaigns in South America and
Greece
.
Cochrane
and Katherine would remarry in the Anglican Church in 1818, and in the Church of
Scotland
in 1825. They had six children ;
- Thomas Barnes
Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald, b. 18 Apr 1814, m. Louisa
Harriett McKinnon.
- William Horatio Barnado Cochrane, officer, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, b. 8 Mar 1818 m.
Jacobina Frances Nicholson.
- Elizabeth Katharine Cochrane, died close to her first
birthday.
- Katharine Elizabeth Cochrane, d. 25 August 1869, m. John Willis
Fleming.
- Admiral Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane KCB
(Commander of HMS Niger), b. 24
Sep 1824, d. 20 Aug 1905. m.
- Captain Ernest Gray Lambton Cochrane RN (
High
Sheriff, Co.
Donegal
) b. 4 Jun 1834, d. 2 Feb 1911 m. 1. Adelaide
Blackall 2. Elizabeth Frances Maria Katherine Doherty.
The confusion of multiple ceremonies led to suspicions that
Cochrane's first son, Thomas Barnes Cochrane, was
illegitimate, which delayed Thomas's accession
to the Earldom of Dundonald on his father's death.
Ancestry
Unless otherwise footnoted, this genealogy has been reproduced from
The Peerage.com
The Great Stock Exchange Fraud
In February 1814, rumours of Napoleon's death began to circulate
and the claims were seemingly confirmed by a man in a red
staff officer's uniform posing as Colonel de
Bourg, aide-du-camp to
Lord Cathcart and
British ambassador to Russia, who arrived in Dover from France on
21 February bearing news that Napoleon had been captured and killed
by
Cossacks.Vale (2004) p.74. In reaction
to the news and the possibility of peace, share prices rose sharply
on the
Stock Exchange,
particularly in a volatile government stock called Omnium which
increased from 26 and a half to 32. However, it soon became clear
that the news of Napoleon's death was a hoax. The Stock Exchange
established a sub-committee to investigate, and they duly
discovered that six men had sold substantial numbers of Omnium
shares during the boom in value, and it was assumed that all six
were responsible for the hoax and subsequent fraud. Cochrane had
disposed of his entire £139,000 holding in Omnium and was named as
one of the six conspirators, as was his uncle, Andrew
Cochrane-Johnstone and his
stock
broker, Richard Butt. Within days, an anonymous informant told
the committee that Colonel de Bourg was an imposter; he was a
Prussian aristocrat named De Berenger and he had been seen entering
Cochrane's house on the day of the hoax.
The
accused were brought to trial in the Court of King's Bench,
Guildhall
on 8 June 1814. The trial was presided over
by
Lord
Ellenborough, a
High Tory and a
notable enemy of the radicals who had previously sentenced radical
politicians
William Cobbett and
Henry Hunt to prison in
politically motivated trials. The evidence against Cochrane was
largely circumstantial and hinged on the colour of uniform De
Berenger had been wearing when they met in his house. Cochrane
admitted he was acquainted with De Berenger and that he had visited
his home on the day of the fraud, but insisted he had arrived
wearing a green sharpshooter's uniform and had merely called to
request passage to the United States aboard Cochrane's new command
the
HMS Tonnant. In a
sworn affidavit created before the trial, Cochrane's servants
confirmed his version of events, but the prosecution summoned a key
witness, hackney carriage driver William Crane, who swore that De
Berenger was wearing a scarlet uniform when he delivered him to the
house. Cochrane's defence also argued that he had given standing
instructions to Butt that his Omnium shares were to be sold if the
price rose by 1 per cent, and he would have made double profit if
he waited until it reached its peak price.

On the second day of the trial, Lord Ellenborough began his
summarisation of the evidence and drew attention to the matter of
De Berenger's uniform which he regarded as damning evidence. The
jury retired to deliberate and returned a verdict of guilty against
all the defendants two and a half hours later. Belatedly,
Cochrane's defence team found several witnesses who were willing to
testify that De Berenger had arrived wearing a green uniform, but
Lord Ellenborough dismissed their evidence as inadmissible because
two of the conspirators had fled the country upon hearing the
guilty verdict.
On 20 June 1814, Cochrane was sentenced to
12 months imprisonment, fined £1,000 and was ordered to stand in
the pillory opposite the Royal
Exchange
for one hour. In subsequent weeks he was
also dismissed from the Royal Navy by the Admiralty and expelled
from Parliament following a
motion in the House of
Commons which was passed by 144 votes to 44.
On the orders of the
Prince Regent,
Cochrane was further humiliated by the loss of his knighthood in a degradation ceremony at Westminster
Abbey
in which his banner
was taken down and kicked out of the chapel and down the steps
outside. However, within a month, Cochrane was re-elected
unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Westminster and following
public outcry, his sentence to the pillory was rescinded for fears
it would lead to the outbreak of a riot.
The question of Cochrane's innocence or guilt created much debate
at the time and has divided historians ever since. Subsequent
reviews of the trial carried out by three
Lord Chancellors during the course of the
19th century concluded that Cochrane should have been found not
guilty. Cochrane maintained his innocence for the rest of his life
and campaigned tirelessly to restore his damaged reputation and to
clear his name. He believed the trial was politically motivated and
that a "higher authority than the Stock Exchange" was responsible
for his prosecution. A series of petitions put forward by Cochrane
protesting his innocence were ignored until 1830 when King
George IV (the former Prince
Regent) died and was succeeeded by
William IV who had served
in the Royal Navy and was sympathetic to Cochrane's cause.Later
that year the Tory government fell and was replaced by a
Whig government in which
his friend,
Lord Broughton,
was appointed Lord Chancellor. Following a meeting of the
Privy Council in
May 1832 Cochrane was granted a pardon and restored to the
Navy List with a promotion to rear-admiral.
Support from friends in the government, and the writings of popular
naval authors such as
Frederick
Marryat and
Maria Graham increased
public sympathy for Cochrane's situation, and in May 1847, with the
personal intervention of
Queen Victoria, Cochrane's
knighthood was restored and he was created a
Knight Grand Cross of the
Order of the Bath. Only in 1860 did his
banner return to Westminster Abbey; the day before his
funeral.
In 1876, his grandson received a payment of £40,000 from the
British government, based on the recommendations of a Parliamentary
select committee, in compensation for his conviction which was
believed to be unjust.
Service with other navies
Chilean Navy
Cochrane left the UK in official disgrace, but that did not end his
naval career.
In May 1817, at the request of Chilean
leader
Bernardo O'Higgins, he took
command of the Chilean Navy in Chile's
war of independence
against Spain. He was the first
Vice Admiral of Chile and
Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean
Navy.
Accompanied by Lady Cochrane and his two
children, he reached Valparaiso
on 28 November 1818. Named a
vice admiral, Cochrane reorganized the Chilean
navy, introducing British naval customs.
He took command of
the frigate O'Higgins
and raided the coasts of Chile and Peru
as he had
those of France and Spain. He organized and led the
capture of Valdivia, despite only having
300 men and two ships to deploy against seven large forts. In 1820,
forces under his command cut out and captured the
Esmeralda, the most powerful Spanish
ship in
South America. However, he
failed in his attempt to capture the
Chiloé Archipelago for Chile. Later,
O'Higgins ordered him to lead the Chilean fleet to free Peru from
Spain, while
Jose de San Martin
would lead the Freedom Army. This resulted in Peruvian
independence, which O'Higgins considered indispensable to both
Chile's independence and security.
Cochrane is alleged to have made plans to free
Napoleon from his exile on
Saint Helena and make him ruler of a unified
South American state. Before he could carry out his plan, Napoleon
died in 1821. Cochrane left the service of the Chilean Navy on 29
November 1822.
Chilean naval vessels named after Lord Cochrane
The Chilean Navy has named five ships
Cochrane or
Almirante Cochrane (Admiral Cochrane) in his honour:
- The first, Almirante
Cochrane, was a famous battery
ship that fought in the War of
the Pacific (1879-1884).
- The second Almirante Cochrane was a dreadnought battleship laid down in Britain in
1913. The Royal Navy acquired the
unfinished ship in 1917, converting her into to the carrier .
- The third ship, Cochrane, was a , the
former , commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 1962 and scrapped in
1983.
- The fourth ship, Almirante
Cochrane, was a , the former , which the Chilean Navy
acquired in 1984 and decommissioned in 2006.
- The fifth and current ship to bear the name, Almirante
Cochrane , is a Type 23
frigate, the former , which the Chilean Navy
commissioned in 2006.
Brazilian Navy
Brazil
was fighting
its own war of
independence against Portugal
. The southern provinces were under rebel
control, but Portugal still controlled the north, in which São
Luís
was the most important city.
Cochrane took command of the
Brazilian
Navy on 21 March 1823 and its
flagship,
the 'Pedro Primeiro'. He blockaded the Portuguese in
Bahia, forcing them to evacuate to Maranhão (Maranham)
and captured much of the escaping convoy. He then sailed ahead of
the convoy to Maranhão and bluffed Maranhão into surrendering as
well.
Finally, he sent a subordinate, Captain Grenfell to Pará
, who used the same bluff to extract Para's
surrender. In 1824 he resigned the Brazilian Navy after
Brazil had achieved its independence.
As a
result of rebellions and attempted palace coups, Cochrane found
himself the Governor of the Province of Maranhão
. Emperor
Pedro
I of Brazil created him the Marquess do Maranhão. But,
dissatisfied with his situation, Cochrane left Brazil on 10
November 1825 and returned to Britain.
Greek Navy
Cochrane
then went to Europe, where between March 1827 and December 1828 he
took an active role in the campaign to secure Greek
independence
from the Ottoman Empire, which had
deployed an army raised in Egypt to suppress the Greek
rebellion. Cochrane's efforts generally met with limited
success due to the poor discipline of the Greek soldiers and
seamen.
Still, one of his subordinates, Captain
Hastings, attacked Ottoman forces at the Gulf of Lepanto
, which indirectly led to intervention by Great
Britain, France and Russia, the destruction of the Turko
-Egyptian
fleet at the Battle of Navarino
, and the end of the war under mediation of the
Great Powers.
Greece was probably the only campaign in Cochrane's naval career in
which the results of his efforts were disappointingly slight. At
the end of the war he resigned and returned to England. For the
first time since he was convicted for the 1814 Stock Exchange
Scandal his lively nature was brought to a standstill. Despite
reports to the contrary, there is little evidence to suggest that
he experienced a nervous breakdown.
Return to Royal Navy
Cochrane inherted his peerage following his father's death on 1
July 1831, becoming the 10th
Earl of
Dundonald. He was restored to the
Royal
Navy list on 2 May 1832 as a
Rear
Admiral of the Blue, but Cochrane's return to Royal Navy
service was delayed by his refusal to take a command until his
knighthood had been restored.
Nevertheless, he was further promoted up the list of
flag officers, as follows:
- Rear Admiral of the Blue on 2 May
1832
- Rear Admiral of the White on 10 January 1837
- Rear Admiral of the Red on 28 June 1838
- Vice Admiral of the Blue on 23
November 1841
- Vice Admiral of the White on 9 November 1846
- Vice Admiral of the Red on 3 January 1848
- Admiral of the Blue on 21 March
1851
- Admiral of the White on 2 April 1853
- Admiral of the Red on 8 December 1857
On 22 May 1847
Queen
Victoria reinstated him as a knight in the
Order of the Bath.
He then served as
Commander-in-Chief of the
North American and West Indies
station from 1848 to 1851. During the
Crimean War, the government considered
him for a command in the Baltic, but decided that there was too
high a chance that he would lose his fleet in a risky attack. On 6
November 1854, he was appointed to the honorary office of
Rear-Admiral of the United
Kingdom, an office that he would retain until his death.
In his final years he wrote his autobiography in collaboration with
G.B. Earp. With his health deteriorating, in 1860 Cochrane twice
underwent painful surgery for
kidney
stones.
He died during the second operation on 31
October 1860, in Kensington
. He was buried in Westminster
Abbey
, where his grave is in the central part of the
nave.
Innovation in technology
Convoys were guided by ships following the lamps of those ahead. In
1805, Cochrane entered a Royal Navy competition for a superior
convoy lamp. Believing that the judges were likely to be biased
against him, he asked a friend to enter for him. When Cochrane won,
he revealed his identity. However, the Royal Navy never purchased
any of the lamps.
In 1806, Cochrane had a
galley made to his
specifications, which he carried on board
Pallas and used
to attack the French coast.
In 1812, Cochrane proposed attacking the French coast using a
combination of bombardment ships, explosion ships and "stink
vessels" (gas warfare). A bombardment ship consisted of a
strengthened old hulk filled with powder and shot and made to list
one side. It would then be anchored at night to face the enemy
behind the harbour wall. This would allow saturation bombardment of
the harbour, which would be closely followed by landings of troops.
He put the plans forward again before and during the Crimean War.
The authorities decided not to pursue his plans, partly because
they would cause terrible destruction and might later be used
against Britain. The plans would be kept secret until 1895.
In 1818,
Cochrane patented, together with the engineer Marc Isambard Brunel, the tunneling shield that Brunel and his son
used in the building of the Thames Tunnel
in 1825-43.
Cochrane was an early supporter of
steamships. He attempted to bring a steamship from
England to Chile, but its construction took too long; it did not
arrive until the war was ending. This happened again with a
steamship he had hoped to bring to the
Greek War of Independence. In the
1830s, he experimented with steam power, developing a rotary engine
and a propeller. In 1851, Cochrane received a patent on powering
steamships with bitumen.
Fictional references
Influence on naval fiction
His career inspired a number of writers of nautical fiction. The
first was
Captain Marryat who had
served under him as a midshipman. In the 20th century, the
fictional careers of
Horatio
Hornblower in the novels by
C.
S. Forester and of
Jack
Aubrey in the
Aubrey–Maturin series of
novels by
Patrick O'Brian were in
part modelled on his exploits.
Appearance in fiction
See also
Notes
- The heir-apparent to an earldom uses the Earl's next-highest
title as a courtesy title; see Earl for details.
- Even after he had inherited the title of Earl of Dundonald
in 1831, he was often still referred to as Lord Cochrane.
- The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert
Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and
genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom; p. 368;
by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931; Edinburgh: D. Douglas; Not
in copyright
- VASCONCELOS, Jaime Smith & VASCONCELOS, Rodolfo
Smith. Archivo Nobiliarchico Brasileiro. Lausanne,
1918.
- The Peerage website
- Families of the 8th and 9th Earls
- Cordingly p.58.
- Leigh Rayment's peerage page
- Peerage website
- Children of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald and Katherine Frances Corbett Barnes
- Children of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald and Katherine Frances Corbett Barnes
- Children of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald and Katherine Frances Corbett Barnes
- Children of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald and Katherine Frances Corbett Barnes
- Children of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
Dundonald and Katherine Frances Corbett Barnes
- [1]
- Cordingly p.241.
- Cordingly p.243.
- Vale (2004) p.78.
- Cordingly p.244.
- Vale (2004) p.77.
- Cordingly p.250.
- Cordingly p.250.
- Vale p.81.
- Cordingly p.251.
- Cordingly pp.251–252.
- Cordingly p.352.
- Cordingly p.334.
- Cordingly p.335.
- Vale (2008) pp.193–194.
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- King, Dean, 2000, Patrick O'Brian: A Life Revealed,p. 193,
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References
Further reading
- Cochrane, Alexander, in collaboration with the 14th Earl of
Dundonald, "The Fighting Cochranes: A Scottish Clan over six
hundred years of naval and military history" 1983, Quiller Press,
London, ISBN 0907621198
- Cordingly, David. (2007) (US title)"Cochrane: The Real Master
and Commander." Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 448pp, ISBN
1-5823-4534-1. (UK title) "Cochrane The Dauntless: The Life and
Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860" London: Bloomsbury, ISBN
9780747580881
- Dale, Richard. "Napoleon is Dead: Lord Cochrane and the Great
Stock Exchange Scandal" (2006) London: Sutton Pub., 256pp, ISBN
9780750943819
- Davie, Donald. Poem entitled 'Lady Cochrane' in "Collected
Poems 1971 - 1983". 1983, Manchester: Carcanet Press, ISBN
0-85635-462-7 and Mid Northumberland Arts Group ISBN 0-904790-30-4.
U.S. edition 1983, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame
Press, ISBN 0-268-00745-4
- Dundonald, Thomas. Cochrane, Earl of, 1775-1860. The
Autobiography of a Seaman. Introduction by Richard
Woodman.
New York: Lyons Press, 2000. ISBN 1-86176-156-2
- Earnock and its Early Proprietors, nd Hamilton Advertiser, n.d.
July 1874
- Grimble, Ian. The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral
Cochrane. Rev. ed. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000. Original edition
1978,
London: Blond & Briggs. ISBN 1-84158-035-X
- Harvey, Robert. Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a
Fighting Captain. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000. ISBN
0-7867-0923-5
- Lloyd, Christopher Lord Cochrane. Seaman, Radical, Liberator. -
A Life of Tomas Lord Cochrane 10th Earl of Dundonald. 1775-1860,
ISBN 0-8050-5986-5
- Stephenson, Charles. "The Admiral's Secret Weapon: Lord
Dundonald and the Origins of Chemical Warfare" (2006) Boydell
press, ISBN 9781843832805
- Thomas, Donald. Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf. 2nd
Edition 2001, Cassell Military Paperbacks, London, 383pp, ISBN
0-304-35659-X
- Vale, Brian. Cochrane in the Pacific: Fortune and Freedon
in Spanish America (2008) London: I. B. Tauris, 256pp, ISBN
1845114469
- Vale, Brian. The Audacious Admiral Cochrane: The True Life
of A Naval Legend. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2004, ISBN
0-85177-986-7
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