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  Dundonald
DUNDONALD, Earl of, a title in the peerage of Scotland, conferred in 1669, on Sir William Cochrane, of Cowdon, knight, who had distinguished himself by his loyalty, of the ancient family of Cochrane in Renfrewshire (see COCHRANE).
Lady Susan, married to the sixth earl of Strathmore, who was killed by Carnegie of Finhaven, in May 1728, without issue, and in 1745, she married, secondly, Mr.
Of great scientific attainments, Lord Dundonald was long in possession of some extraordinary submarine method for blowing up ships, and during the war in the Crimea, he offered to the British government to destroy Sebastopol in a few hours by a plan of his own, but his offer was rejected.
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  10TH EARL OF DUNDONALD - LoveToKnow Article on 10TH EARL OF DUNDONALD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
He was the son of Archibald Cochrane, oth Earl (1749-1831), who is remembered as a most ingenious, but also most unfortunate, scientific speculator and inventor, who was before his time in suggesting and attempting new processes of alkali manufacture, and various other uses of applied science.
Lord Dundonald died in London on the 3oth of October 1860, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
The 10th earls Autobiography of a Seaman (2 vols., 1860-1861), the main source for his LIfe (1869, by his son and heir), is written with spirit, but it was composed at the end of his career when his memory was failing, and was chiefly executed by others.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a politician and naval adventurer.
Thomas Cochrane was born at Annsfield, near Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald (later 9th Earl of Dundonald) and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane.
As a child he was fictitiously listed on the ship's books of the Royal Navy ship commanded by his uncle but officially joined in 1793 at the age of seventeen, upon the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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 Earl of Dundee -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The title Earl of Dundee was created in 1660 in the (additional info and facts about Peerage of Scotland) Peerage of Scotland for John Scrymgeour.
Thereafter, the title of Earl of Dundee was revived in 1953, when it was determined that the first Earl did indeed have heirs-male, contrary to the assertion of King Charles II.
The eldest son and heir of the earl uses Viscount of Dudhope as his (additional info and facts about courtesy title) courtesy title.
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 Earl of Dundonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title Earl of Dundonald was created in 1669 in the Peerage of Scotland for the soldier Sir William Cochrane.
Other titles held by the Earl of Dundonald are: Lord Cochrane of Dundonald (created 1647) and Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree (1669).
Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald (b.
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 C O C H R A N Earl of DUNDONALD
John, fourth earl of Dundonald, who was elected one of the fixteen peers for the British parliament, called to meet in November 1713, and was made colonel of the fourth troop of horfe guards, by her majefty qeeen Anne.
William, fifth earl of Dundonald, who dying unmarried, anon 1724, in him ended the male-line of John fecund earl of Dundonald, eldeft son of William lord Cochrane, whereby the honours devolved upon the next heir-male, Thomas fon of William of Kilmaronock, fon of William of Kilmaronock, to whom we now return.
Of the family of Dundonald were, at the caftle of Dundonald, in the fhire of Air, and the abboy of Paifley, in the fhire of Renfrew.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Thomas Cochrane, was the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald.
He was commissioned into the Royal Navy as a child but officially joined in 1793 at the age of 17 on the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of
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 THE COCHRANE CREST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The exact years when members of the family settled in America are uncertain; however, it is known that several daughters and sons of the eighth and ninth Earls of Dundonald were married in New York prior to 1775.
Of particular note is Thomas Cochrane, the tenth Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860), who was an Admiral of the First Rank in the Royal Navy.
In addition to the supporters, the crest granted to the Earl Dundonald included a helmet on which the horse was standing.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775–31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a politician and naval adventurer.
Thomas Cochrane was the son of Archibald Cochrane, Lord Cochrane (later 9th Earl of Dundonald) and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane.
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Early life and career, Political career, Service in foreign navies, Cochrane's influence on naval fiction, References and External links.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of Dundonald --  Encyclopædia Britannica
He was the eldest son of the 9th earl, whose scientific experiments on his Scottish estates impoverished his family.
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
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 Earls of Galloway
Son of the third earl, he was born in January of 1660 and died, unmarried in 1694.
She died on December of 1757 and was the daughter of Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton.
She was the daughter of John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Thomas Alexander Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB, lived from 14 December 1775 to 31 October 1860.
He achieved fame as was one of the most daring and successful naval captains of the Napoleonic Wars, and later led the navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece in independence struggles.
Hamilton, the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane.
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 Earls of Galloway
The third earl's fourth son, Andrew, died or was killed in the Darien expedition in 1699.
Galloway House was built in 1740 by Lord Garlies (later the 8th Earl of Galloway), the eldest son of the 7th Earl of Galloway and later enlarged by Burn and then all decorated by Lorimer.
Alan Stewart, the tenth Earl of Galloway, was born in 1835, the oldest son of the 9th Earl of Galloway and his wife, Harriet Blanche Somerset.
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 John Spreul of Glasgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It was believed that the Earl of Dundonald was his main persecutor (a man who had taken the `Tender` but became a Privy Councillor - so much for loyalty and conscience).
Dundonald and a magistrate went to Glasgow and turned Spreul`s wife and family out of their house without anything whatsoever; locked the shop and secured all the windows and doors with chains.
However, the greedy Earl had overlooked the cellar which contained a considerable quantity of valuable goods imported from the continent.
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 Dundonald Castle // History of Dundonald Castle // The Cochranes of Cowden
The Cochranes acquired their peerage in 1647 and their son Sir William Cochrane was created the first Earl of Dundonald in 1669.
It was Elizabeth's eldest son Sir John Cochrane who became a colonel for Charles I and began the recurring "fighting Cochranes", a line of chiefs who consistently served their country, both on land and at sea, with distinction.
In October 1745, the seventh Earl, a supporter of the Hanoverian succession, had his horse shot from under him at the West Port of Edinburgh while jacobites were in possession of the capital.
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 Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Cochranes were originally descended from the House of Titania’s retainers and were granted the wide stretches to the Northeast of Amber to hold in fief.
By the Tenth Century, the Cochranes were reduced to little more than Mercenaries, until Archibald took the title of Earl and decided to turn his back on the ancestral home to seek his fortune in shadow.
As Steward of Amber, Earl Archibald acts as Chief executive in the King’s absence, and is responsible for the overall administration of the Government.
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 Union County, Georgia bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The title Earl of Dunmore was granted in 1686 to the Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl.
The title of Earl of Dartmouth was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1711 for William Legge, 2nd Baron Dartmouth, who was then Secretary of State for the Southern Department.
The title of Earl of Aylesford was created in 1714 for Heneage Finch, 1st Baron Guernsey, a younger son of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham.
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 During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare
His father, Archibald, the ninth Earl of Dundonald, was an unsuccessful inventor with disastrous pecuniary habits who provided his 6-foot-2-inch, redheaded heir with little beyond the necessities of life.
Returning home in 1829, he campaigned for British officials to take another look at his past crimes, which he accomplished three years later when, having inherited the title of Earl of Dundonald, he was pardoned by King William IV and readmitted to the navy list with the rank of rear admiral of the fleet.
Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, died on October 31, 1860.
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 Early Life And Career - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl Of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775—October 31 1860) was a politician and naval adventurer.
Thomas Cochrane was the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane.
He was commissioned into the Royal Navy as a child but officially joined in 1793 at the age of seventeen, upon the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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 The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Chapter I. Thomas, Loud Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dundonald, was born at Annsfield, in Lanark, on the 14th of December, 1775, and died in London on the 31st of October, 1860.
The Earl of Dundonald was descended from a long line of knights and barons, chiefly resident in Renfrew and Ayr, many of whom were men of mark in Scottish history during the thirteenth and following centuries.
Archibald, the ninth Earl, inheriting a patrimony much reduced by the loyalty and zeal of his ancestors, spent it all in the scientific pursuits to which he devoted himself, and in which he was the friendly rival of Watt, Priestley, Cavendish, and other leading chemists and mechanicians of two or three generations ago.
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 Gathering of the Clans - Devoted To All Things Scottish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
It was from there that William Cochrane, the first Earl of Dundonald, received his title in 1669.
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Cochranes distinguished themselves in both land and naval forces, and came to be nicknamed the fighting Cochranes.
The father of the present chief, who was the fourteenth Earl served with the Black Watch, then during World War Two, he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Greece.
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The use of the coat of arms is with the kind permission of the 15th Earl.
The Dundonald Arms is probably named in honour of Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald, arguably Culross' most famous inhabitant.
A dashing sea captain in the Napoleonic Wars he became involved in politics; was arrested and imprisoned for fraud (indications were that he was framed); he escaped and became the Commandante of the Chilean Revolutionary Navy.
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 A Short History of Gwrych Castle and Estate
Gwrych Castle was built in 1819 by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh, grandfather of Winifred, Countess of Dundonald.
Lady Dundonald’s will declared that Gwrych should be bequeathed to King George V and the Prince of Wales.
In 1928 the Earl of Dundonald (Winifred’s husband) bought back the Castle for £78,000 and sold the contents of the building to cover the cost.
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 Royal Navy: Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald 1775-1860
Cochrane had made some powerful enemies and his campaign against corruption in the navy offended other leading figures including some, such as Earl St Vincent, who was sympathetic to his views.
The establishment was determined on revenge and seized on an opportunity to put Cochrane on trial for stock exchange fraud in 1814.
Tute, Cochrane: The Life of Admiral the Earl of Dundonald (London, 1965).
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 A Daughter of the House of Dundonald
The king was notoriously in need of money, and her great-grand-father, the Earl of Dundonald, was ready to buy" his grandsons freedom at a great ransom.
The Earl of Dundonald lent them the aid of his powerful influence.
Her father lived to succeed to the, Earldom of Dundonald, and to take his place among the peers of the relm.
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 The Welcome Home of Lord Dundonald
Lord Dundonald, on arriving in South Africa, offered his services to Redvers Buller and was given command of the South Natal Field Force.
A central escutcheon on front bears ribbons inscribed with the various engagements the Earl took part in: with the arms of Wales on the reverse.
In her own carriage was the Earl’s mother, the dowager Countess of Dundonald.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - TheBestLinks.com - August 8, April 11, Admiralty, Brazil, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - TheBestLinks.com - August 8, April 11, Admiralty, Brazil,...
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, August 8, April 11, Admiralty, Brazil...
His life and exploits served as inspirations century for the naval fiction of 20th-century novelists C.
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 JohnL.html
John's association with Admiral Lord Cochrane and the 9 th Earl of Dundonald acquired him controlling
The Ayr Bank which collapsed was not that of James McAdam.
McAdam first worked for Dundonald and later acquired the lease of the Earl's tarkilns at Muirkirk.
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 cochrane02
Families covered: Cochrane of Auchencreugh, Cochrane of Culross, Cochrane of Dundonald, Cochrane of Ochiltree, Cochrane of Waterside
William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald (b c1686, d unm 19.11.1705)
William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald (b 10.1729, d Louisburg unm 09.07.1758)
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