COCK, Rev. Thomas Astley. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., 27 wrangler 1834, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1839; mathematical tutor King’s coll. London and professor of mathematics Queen’s coll. London many years. d. 18 Rodney st. Pentonville, London 3 July 1885 in 74 year.
COCKAYNE, Rev. Thomas Oswald (son of Mr. Cockin). b. 1807; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., 10 wrangler 1828, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1835; a master at King’s college sch. London 1842–69; member of Philological and Early English Text Societies; author of The civil history of the Jews from Joshua to Hadrian 1841, 2 ed. 1845; Greek Syntax 1846; Life of Marshal Turenne 1853; Leechdoms, Wort-cunning and Starcraft of early England 3 vols. 1858; Spoon and Sparrow, or English roots in Greek, Latin and Hebrew 1861. Shot himself at Carrackdew, St. Ives 2 or 3 June 1873. Cornish Telegraph 18, 25 June 1873.
COCKBURN, Alexander (4 son of Sir James Cockburn 6 baronet 1729–1804). b. 20 Aug. 1776; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. to Wurtemburg 6 March 1820 to 8 Feb. 1823, to Columbia, South America 28 Feb. 1826 to 21 Sep. 1829. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 14 Oct. 1852.
COCKBURN, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 10 Baronet (only son of the preceding). b. 24 Dec. 1802; ed. at Trin. hall, Cam., fellow commoner 1825, fellow 1829; LL.B. 1829, LLD. 1874; barrister M.T. 6 Feb. 1829, bencher 1841, treasurer 1853; recorder of Southampton 26 July 1840 to Aug. 1846; Q.C. Oct. 1841; M.P. for Southampton 31 July 1847 to Nov. 1856; solicitor general 11 July 1850; knighted at Buckingham Palace 14 Aug. 1850; attorney general 28 March 1851 to Feb. 1852 and 28 Dec. 1852 to 21 Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, April 1854 to Nov. 1856; led the prosecution of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner who was hanged 14 June 1856; lord chief justice of court of Common Pleas 21 Nov. 1856; lord chief justice of court of Queen’s bench 24 June 1859, of England 2 Nov. 1874 to death; P.C. 2 Feb. 1857; succeeded his uncle as 10 baronet 30 April 1858; arbitrator for Her Majesty under treaty of Washington 1 Sep. 1871; G.C.B. 12 Feb. 1873; presided at trial of The Queen v Castro (Tichborne claimant) 1873–4, 188 days, longest trial upon record except that of Warren Hastings; admitted to freedom of city of London 9 March 1876; chairman of Cambridge University commission 1877–8; presided in court of crown cases reserved 20 Nov. 1880. d. from angina pectoris 40 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 20 Nov. 1880. A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 1–20; Ballantine’s Some experiences of a barrister ii, 113–19 (1882); Lord W. P. Lennox’s Celebrities I have known, second series i, 162–83 (1877); E. Yates’s Recollections ii, 129–38 (1884); Law Mag. xlvi, 193–213 (1851); Law Mag. and Review i, 50–3, 896–903 (1872); The Englishman xiv, 88–90 (1880), portrait; I.L.N. xvii, 121 (1850), portrait, lxvi, 287 (1875), portrait, lxxvii, 521 (1880), portrait.
Note.—He was the first legally styled Lord chief justice of England; Sir Edward Coke assumed that title which most of his successors also did, but it was not until the Supreme Court of Judicature act 1873 that the title was fully recognised.
COCKBURN, Sir Francis (brother of Alexander Cockburn 1776–1852). b. 10 Nov. 1780; cornet 7 dragoon guards 16 Oct. 1800; lieut. col. New Brunswick Fencibles 27 Oct. 1814 to 25 April 1816 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 30 July 1829 to 9 Nov. 1846; governor of Honduras 1830–7, of the Bahamas 1837–44; knighted by patent 8 Sep. 1841; colonel 95 foot 26 Dec. 1853 to death; general 12 Nov. 1860. d. East Cliff, Dover 24 Aug. 1868.
COCKBURN, Sir George, 8 Baronet (brother of the preceding). b. London 22 April 1772; entered navy as captain’s servant 12 March 1781; captain 20 Feb. 1794; suggested and planned capture of Washington 1813; commander-in-chief at St. Helena Oct. 1815 to June 1816; conveyed Napoleon Buonaparte from Plymouth to St. Helena in the Northumberland 8 Aug. to 16 Oct. 1815; commander-in-chief on North America and West India station 6 Dec. 1832 to Feb. 1836; admiral 10 Jany. 1837; rear admiral of the U.K. 10 Aug. 1847; admiral of the fleet 1 July 1851 to death; first naval lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 13 July 1846; major-general of marines 5 April 1821; M.P. for Portsmouth 1818–20, for Weobley, co. Hereford 1820–6, for Plymouth 1826–32, for Ripon 1841–7; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 20 Feb. 1818; F.R.S. 21 Dec. 1820; P.C. 30 April 1827; succeeded 26 Feb. 1852. d. Leamington Spa 19 Aug. 1853. J. Allen’s Battles of the British Navy ii, 420 (1852), portrait; G.M. xl, 406–10 (1853); I.L.N. xxiii, 165, 166 (1853), portrait.
COCKBURN, Henry Thomas (4 son of Archibald Cockburn, a baron of Court of Exchequer in Scotland). b. in or near Edin. 26 Oct. 1779; ed. at Edin. high school and college; called to Scotch bar Dec. 1800; advocate depute 1806–10; leader with Jeffrey of the Scottish bar; solicitor general for Scotland 3 Dec. 1830 to 1834; lord rector of Univ. of Glasgow 1831; one of lords of Court of Session as Lord Cockburn 5 Nov. 1834; a lord comr. of justiciary 14 June 1837 to death; author of Life of Lord Jeffrey 2 vols. 1852. d. Bonaly near Edin. 26 April 1854. Memorials of his time by H. T. Cockburn 1856, portrait; Journal of H. T. Cockburn 1831–44, 2 vols. 1874; Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882), portrait.
COCKBURN, Sir James, 7 Baronet (brother of Sir Francis Cockburn 1780–1868). b. 21 March 1771; succeeded his father 26 July 1804; under sec. of state for department of war and colonies 1806–7; governor and commander-in-chief of Curaçoa 10 April 1807 to 1811; governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda islands 26 April 1811 to 1 July 1819; inspector general of Royal marines; major general 22 Feb. 1831; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1847. d. Portman sq. London 26 Feb. 1852.
COCKBURN, James Horsford. Entered navy 1 Dec. 1829; captain 7 April 1850; R.A. 6 April 1866; commander-in-chief East Indies 6 Sep. 1870 to death. d. Government house, Calcutta 10 Feb. 1872 aged 56.