Thomas Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald

Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald (14 April 1814 – 15 January 1885) was a Scottish nobleman. He was son of the radical politician and sailor Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald. As a child he accompanied his father to Chile as a stowaway on the Chilean frigate O'Higgins (1816). In February 1819 the O'Higgins attempted to raid the city of Callao, but was repelled by the coastal fortresses. Thomas Cochrane 11th was almost hit by a cannonball, which instead killed a sailor next to him.

Cochrane joined the British Army and eventually gained the rank of Captain. On 31 October 1860, he succeeded his father as the 11th Earl of Dundonald. Between 1879 and 1885, he was a Representative Peer of Scotland.[1]

Thomas's eldest son, Douglas Cochrane learnt of his father's death when he was serving at the Desert March and the Relief of Khartoum.[2]

Marriage and children

Cochrane married, at the British Embassy in Paris on 1 December 1847, Louisa Harriet MacKinnon, daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon, MP, of Mackinnon. The Dowager Countess of Dundonald (as she was known after her husband's death) died 24 February 1902 in her 83rd year.[3] They had seven children:

Notes
  1. "Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald". thePeerage.com. 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2009.
  2. Ballymena Observer, Friday 19 April 1935 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001426/19350419/110/0006
  3. "Obituary - Dowager Countess of Dundonald". The Times. No. 36701. 26 February 1902. p. 10.
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