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	Alexander Cockburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page is on the journalist Alexander Cockburn.
		Until 1983 Cockburn was a writer with the The Village Voice, originating its longstanding "Press Clips" column, but he was suspended for accepting a grant from a Palestinian organization without disclosing this.
		At times acerbic, Cockburn can also be gently ironic, once declaring Gerald Ford America's greatest president for doing the least damage and praising the Lewinsky scandal 's entertainment value.
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	Hume Family Home Page - The Great Historic Families of Scotland
		Sir Alexander's second son, THOMAS, was the ancestor of the Homes of Tyningham and the Humes of Ninewells, the family of which David Hume, the philosopher and historian, was a member.
		Sir Patrick Hume, the head of the house during the latter part of the seventeenth century, was elevated to the earldom of Marchmont, and appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland at the Revolution of 1688, as a reward for his sufferings in the cause of Presbyterianism and religious liberty under Charles II.
		Sir Patrick was partial to the national dish of a sheep's head, and one day at dinner Grizel took an opportunity, when her brothers and sisters were busy at their kail, to convey the greater part of one from the plate to her lap, with the intention of carrying it that night to her father.
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	ANCIENT MURRAY GENEALOGY
		SIR WILLIAM MURRAY OF STANHOPE was greatly attached to the cause of King Charles II, and probably on this account was imprisoned for some time in July 1655, in Peebles jail, having been fined in the previous year by Oliver Cromwell 2000pounds sterling for his loyalty.
		SIR ALEXANDER MURRAY OF STANHOPE: the third Baronet, was MP for Peebleshire in 1710, and was placed by his father in possession of the baronies of Stanhope and Broughton on the occasion of his marriage in that year to Grizel Ballie, the eldest daughter of George Ballie of Jerviswood.
		SIR JOHN MURRAY OF BROUGHTON, the eldest surviving son of Sir David Murray, the second Baronet, by Margaret Scott, is notorious from his connection with the ’45 and Prince Charles, whose secretary he was during that episode.
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	DAVID THOMSON, THE SCOTTISH FOUNDER OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
		Alexander, the Earl of Mar was son to Prince Alexander Stewart, the Earl of Buchan, aka the marauding Wolf of Badenoch who burnt down the Cathedral at Elgin to protest the Pope’s censuring his affairs.
		Sir John Scot of Scotstarvit, a contemporary of David Thomson, was the author of "The Staggering State of Scot's Statesmen," which exposed the chicanery of the rich and powerful.
		Alexander, the Earl of Home was made Captain of the King’s Bodyguard, despite the fact that he was a professed Papist and at odds with the Kirk of Scotland.
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	Border Clan Scott - History and Genealogy
		Sir Michael Scott of Murthockstone, son of Sir Richard and the heiress of Murthockstone, was a gallant warrior, distinguishing himself at the battle of Halidon hill, 19 July 1330.
		Sir Walter Scott was effectively introduced this supernatural accomplishment in his Lay of the Last Minstrel, of which she figures as the heroin, much softened and ennobled, it has to be admitted, by the poet's charitable imagination.
		Sir Walter Scott was himself principal Chamberlain, and in 1603 obtained letters of horning against Sir William stewart of Traquair for :93, 6s, 8d., part of a tax raised for the baptism of the prince.
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	Alexander Cockburn biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alexander Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (born June, 1941) is a radical Irish journalist well-known for his eloquently-worded polemics.
		Cockburn was born in Scotland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland.
		Cockburn is a strident opponent of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks (even going so far as to cite them as evidence of a Tenth Crusade).
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	Descendants of Sir William Cockburn
		Sir William was third in descent from Alexander DE COCKBURN, who was created Heritable Usher of the White Rod 10 Feb 1373 and was afterwards Keeper of the Great Seal in the time of Robert II and Robert III.
		Had a charter from David, Earl of Crawford, of the lands and barony of Inverarity, Forfarshire, in special warrandice of the lands of Cockburn, which was confirmed 15 Apr 1527.
		Ancestor of James COCKBURN of Ryselaw, in the parish of Fogo, Berwickshire, said to have been created a baronet of Scotland in 1628, whose line failed ca.
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	Kate Gallison's Bucker Dudley - Excerpt from Nelson's Hardy and his Wife
		Sir Thomas asked for a frigate and obtained one but on Lord Nelson begging him to be his Flag Captain, he gave her up and entered into that line that afterwards so completely made his fortune.
		Sir Thomas allows that this was carrying the authority he had in the ship rather far, but he was determined not to have the excellent discipline he had succeeded in getting, interfered with.
		"Sir Thomas's opinion of Lord Nelson was that to most people he was not easy to live with or attractive in his manners, being fidgety to the greatest degree, vain and proud.
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	Abstract of the Evidence of the Montgomerie Claim to the Seton's Winton Honours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alexander, born 1588, first Sir Alexander Seaton of Foulstruther, and thereafter Alexander Montgomerie sixth earl of Eglinton, having succeeded his cousin Hugh, fifth Earl of Eglinton, in 1612, under entails of the estates, and subsequent royal grants of the honours in 1615.
		March 1620, afterwards Sir Alexander Seaton of Craigiehall, and first Viscount Kingston, progenitor of the Kingston branch; the particulars of which are stated from p.
		Sir George was the grandson of Sir John the first of Garleton, younger son of George the third Earl, but could not have become the representative of the Winton Family, unless the attainted Earl had died without male issue.
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	Clan Cockburn
		In 1314 Sir Alexander Cockburn was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn and his grandson, Alexander Cockburn, was Keeper of the Great Seal 1389-96.
		COCKBURN: This name is of territorial origin being mentioned in late 12th century as Cukoueburn or Gowk's Burn in Roxburghshire.
		John Cockburn of Ormiston held hereditary office of Constable of Haddington and Lord Ormiston, 'The Curse of Scotland', was zealous in suppressing the 1715 Rising.
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		Sir John HA Macdonald (Lord Kingsburgh) By Norman AM Macdonald WS John Hay Athole Macdonald, who was the first President of the Clan Donald Society of Edinburgh from its formation in 1891.
		Alexander Macdonald, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery, who is famed for his part (with Norman Ramsay) in "the brilliant feat of arms" at Fuentes d'Onoro in the Peninsular War.
		The funeral was a big public occasion, the procession, led by the Lord Provost, Sir John Lorne MacLeod, moving along crowd-lined streets from the Catholic Apostolic Church to St. Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street, where pipers played the lament.
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	Ghosts Of Scotland. (Page 1)
		Lengthy investigations resulted in Duncan Clark and Alexander Bain MacDonald being arrested and charged with the murder of Sergeant Davies in September, 1753, but they were not brought to trial at the Tollbooth, Edinburgh, until 10th June, 1754, exactly four years after the ghost of Sergeant Davies had first manifested itself to Alexander McPherson.
		Sir William Bart, a noted doctor of his day, was walking with a friend in the grounds on 10th July, 1758, accompanied by a servant.
		Until 1729, 12th century Duntrune Castle was the home of the Campbells of Duntrune and is haunted by the ghost of a piper who was sent to spy out the land and was killed violently as a result.
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	Thomas Chalmers
		Immediately behind them, in the top row and underneath the clock, are Mr Alexander Patterson, the Missionary of Kilmany, one of Dr Chalmers' earliest, converts in Kilmany; the Rev. Alexander Simpson Patterson, D.D. (directly under the clock), of Hutchesontown, Glasgow; and the Rev. Robert Reid, who was ordained, in 1842, at Chalmers' Church, Glasgow.
		The portly gentleman in the armchair is Professor Alexander Black of Marischal College, Aberdeen, who was sent, with the Rev. Robert Murray MacCheyne of Dundee and others, by the Church of Scotland in 1839 on a mission of inquiry to the Jews.
		On Lord Rutherfurd's left is Sir Thomas MacDougall Brisbane, Baronet, of Makerston, for long President of the Royal Society Next to him, on his left, is Mr Campbell of Tillichewan, "whose gifts to all good objects were not less remarkable for their munificence than for the non-ostentatious and single-hearted simplicity with which they were administered".
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		Sir Richard is perhaps the most famous member of this family, due this his involvement with William Wallace and Scotland's fight for independence from Edward I of England.
		Sir Richard is believed to have married Margaret de Dunbar, daughter of Patrick Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar and Marjorie Comyn, herself the daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan.
		Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgonie, son and heir of Sir John Sibbald aforesaid, executed the office of High-Sheriff of the county of Fife, in the year 1456, as appears from Rymer, and he is designed Vicecomes de Fife, in the year 1466, in the records of Parliament.
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	Sir David Home 4th Baron of Wedderburn
		William Cockburn, his brother-in-law, was angry that the guardianship of his nephew was not given to him by his brother, and got David to besiege the castle of Langton, which the guardians held for their ward.
		Their meeting was at first peaceable, but by degrees they became more warm, and De la Bastie desired they would desist, and that if any injury had been done to William Cockburn, they might try his right, but not by force.
		David resolved on revenge; having passed the village of Fogo, within half a mile of Langton Tower, then furiously besieged by William Cockburn and David's brothers, he sent a message to acquaint them with the affair, and desired them to come to him with their swiftest horses, to attack De la Bastie's troop.
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	Worldroots.com
		Granddaughter of William The Silent, Prince of Orange, Charlotte married the Earl of Derby, who was related to the English royal family, and found her a queen by his side in Lathom House, a massive and ancient fortress, considered 'the only Court' in the north.
		In 1643, with the Earl on the Isle of Man, the Countess was at Lathom House with two of her children, when it was besieged by Sir Thomas Fairfax, the Parliamentary General who wanted to have a bloodless surrender.
		Sir Thomas Winnington, Paymaster-General of the Forces, suspecting their uncle of Stuart support, sent a warrant to Andrew Drummond's house, seized all his papers and spread the rumour he was ruined.
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	Bo'ness - Full historic timeline
		Sir Gilbert Hamilton, Royal Bodyguard to Robert the Bruce, is recorded as having slain the "Great General of England" at Kinneil Muir.
		It is recorded that, in 1323, Walter Hamilton, the son of Sir Gilbert Hamilton, was gifted Kinneil Estate by Robert the Bruce, and although Hamilton House was the family's main seat, their house at Kinneil became an important residence, conveniently located for Edinburgh and the Royal Court.
		The lands were owned by the Cockburn family from 1358 until 1541 when the were passed to the Abercombies; sold to Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick in 1601, who was made lord Bargany.
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		Alexander, Jerome (Sir), Barrister 1670 Gave his vast law library to Trinity College, Dublin.
		Dixwell, Basil (Sir) 1712 List of books lent to Rev. John Harris, author of The History of kent.
		Gibson, John (Sir), Judge 1613 Given by James Gibson to the College of Advocates in 1717.
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	MLN Testaments - H
		Hon General Sir Alexander HOPE of Craighall and Waughton, Grand Cross of the Bath, John James Hope JOHNSTON of Annandale.
		Sir John HAY Smithfield and Haystoune, Baronet d Ronme 1 Nov 1838.
		Alexander HUNTER 2nd son of dec Alexander Gibson HUNTER esq of Blackness d Queen St, Edin Apr 1827.
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	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sir William Lee ( June 8, 1737 - May 2, 1754)
		Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet ( June 24, 1859 - November 1, 1875)
		Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet ( November 1, 1875 - November 20, 1880) (died in office)
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		Sir Claud Alexander, 2nd Baronet, son of Sir Claud
		Sir Daniel Cooper, 4th Baronet, son of Sir William Charles
		Sir Roderick Napoleon Brinckman, 5th Baronet, son of Sir
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		Alexander, Albert Victor (1885-1965) 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, statesman ( 6)
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (1891-1969) 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Field Marshal ( 7)
		Cockburn, Robert (1909-1994), Knight Research Scientist and Public Servant ( 2)
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	Holmes à Court: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bowyer, Miss (marriage to Sir James Ashe) (i2101) (living status unknown)
		Campbell, Sir Alexander Cockburn (marriage to Margaret Malcolm) (i3762), b.1807-d.1871
		Cockburn, Jessie Maria Ward (marriage to William Frederick Beadon) (i670), d.1895
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	Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sir Christopher Wray ( November 8, 1574 - June 2, 1592)
		Sir Richard Raynsford ( April 12, 1676 - May 31, 1678)
		John Parker, 1st Baron Parker ( March 11, 1710 - May 15, 1718)
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