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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.
Cochrane pursued a very active political career, serving as Member of Parliament for Honiton in England from 1806 to 1807 and for Westminster, London, from 1807 to 1815, and campaigning for parliamentary reform in Britain, being allied with such Radicals as William Cobbett and Henry Hunt.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
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.
Cochrane pursued a very active political career, serving as Member of Parliament for Honiton from 1806 to 1807 and for Westminster from 1807 to 1815, and campaigning for parliamentary reform in Britain, being allied with such Radicals as William Cobbett and Henry Hunt.
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 10TH EARL OF DUNDONALD - LoveToKnow Article on 10TH EARL OF DUNDONALD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The conduct of Lord Cochrane, as he was called till the death of his father, was brilliant and was rewarded by the order of the Bath, but his aggressive temper led him into making attacks on the admiral which necessitated a court-martial on Gambier.
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
Thomas Cochrane, the son of the ninth Earl of Dundonald, was born in Annsfield, Lanarkshire in 1775.
However, Cochrane's ideas were too progressive for the electors of Honiton and in 1807 he decided to accept the invitation to stand with Sir Francis Burdett as one of the two Radical candidates for the Westminster constituency.
Cochrane claimed he had been framed but he was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, a fine of £1,000 and two hours in the pillory.
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 MASTER and COMMANDER
Earl of Dundonald, was the primary source of his inspiration in creating Captain Jack Aubrey, the hero of his 20 novels which are among the most vivid and compelling books on seafaring ever written.
Earl of Dundonald, was born at Annfield near Hamilton in Lanarkshire in December 1775.
Thomas Cochrane was almost certainly innocent but in a travesty of a trial he was convicted and given a fine of £1000 (which he long refused to pay).
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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.
Cochrane was reinstated in the Royal Navy in 1832 under a new King, William IV, and a sympathetic Whig government.
One of Britain’s most flamboyant and daring naval heroes and a reforming politician, Cochrane died in 1860 at the age of 85 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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 BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Making History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860), 10th Earl of Dundonald, was one of the most remarkable of all naval sea captains.
At his trial Cochrane was fined £1,000, sentenced to the pillory, expelled from the Commons (to which he was immediately re-elected), stripped of his rank, deprived of his knighthood (which was not restored until the 1840s) and put in prison.
Cochrane died in 1860 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (Earl of Dundonald: the title earl of dundonald was created in 1669 in the peerage of scotland for the soldier...
Thomas Cochrane was the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane (Alexander Cochrane: more facts about this subject).
In 1800 Cochrane was appointed to command the sloop Speedy in which he achieved his most famous exploit, the capture of the Spanish xebec (xebec: a xebec, also spelled chebec, chebeck, jabeque, sciabecco, shebec,...
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But in truth Lord Thomas Cochrane was not as impervious to insult and petty criticism as the character he inspired.
He was born in 1775 to an aristocratic Scottish family, originally Scandinavian sea-rovers and entered the navy as Lord Thomas Cochrane at the late age of 18.
Cochrane had another experience of jail a few years later when he was charged with two others on a matter concerning fraud on the Stock Exchange.
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 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - TheBestLinks.com - August 8, April 11, Admiralty, Brazil, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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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.
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 Earl of Dundonald
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).
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald (1886-1958)
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 Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain Top 10 Bestselling Books: Cochrane: The Life and Exploits of a ...
The life and adventures of Thomas Cochrane, a young man who rose from midshipman to admiral, are so extraordinary that, to paraphrase Patrick O'Brian, one has to suspend disbelief.
Cochrane was a true master at both of these things, and this book did provide some useful insights.
Thomas Cochrane must be a fasinating person, but you will not discover it from this book.
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 Saturation Bombing and Chemical Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cochrane had also experimented with that technique, drawing on the propensity he had inherited from his father for dabbling in chemistry, in particular with the properties of coal and its byproducts, coke and coal tar.
In July 1854, Cochrane again urged Graham to employ his patent stink vessels to route the Russian troops away from the fortifications of the harbor at Kronstadt, so that a British landing could be made and the enemy's guns manned and turned on the Russian ships anchored beneath the batteries.
Once again, Cochrane suggested to the press that utilization of his unnamed innovative devices would mean that a little more than a week of fair weather in the Crimea would be enough to settle the conflict.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald (1814–1885)
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald (1886–1958)
Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald (b.
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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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Fremont and Cochrane were the candidates of a faction of radical Democrats consisting mostly of Germans and abolitionists.
An html reproduction of a document, written by the 14th Earl of Dundonald, that defines the Cochrane tartan.
A photograph of the gravestone of Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald, in Westminster Abbey, near the entrance and the tomb of the unknown.
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 Leaning Towards the Dark Side: Book 43   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cochrane was a British naval hero during the Napoleonic Wars before his election as a Member of Parliament and subsequent disgrace for his involvment in stock fraud (it is possible he was framed).
Cochrane wasn't merely content with this, according to Donald Thomas' biography (which just happens to be on my wishlist), Cochrane was in contact with Napoleon in exile on St. Helena.
Cochrane schemed to free the former French Emperor, bring him to Chile and use his military genius to help establish a United States of South America.
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 Westminster Abbey - The Library and Archives - People Buried or Commemorated - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas was born at Annesfield in Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, and Anna, daughter of Capt.Gilchrist of the Royal Navy.
After his disgrace his Bath banner, in the chapel of Henry VII in the Abbey, was removed and kicked down the steps and his name on the stall there obliterated.
He next went to Brazil, where he was appointed “Admiral of the National and Imperial Navy”, and finally aided the Greek navy during their war of independence.
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 AllRefer.com - Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th earl of 1775–1860, British naval commander.
He served in the Napoleonic Wars, executing his assignments with a boldness and originality sometimes too radical for the admiralty.
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 Thomas Cochrane, the real 'Master and Commander' : Special features : Picture Library : Corporate & commercial : ...
Cochrane had one of the most extraordinary and controversial naval careers of the 19th century.
In 1805 Cochrane won the seat for Westminster and entered Parliment as an independent, standing against corruption and championing reform. He kept the seat for ten years but was often sent back to sea by request of Parliament because of his radical attacks on the Government.
Cochrane died in 1860 at the age of 85.
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Lord Cochrane was a naval commander in war (and peace) whose talents almost rivalled the great Nelson's, and unlike Nelson he lived to a ripe old age.
In a surprisingly "modern" twist to Cochrane's biography, he was duped into a financial scandal that led to bad headlines, ugly partisan politics, and a nasty court case.
He was inventive, bold, imaginative, extremely meticulous in his preparations for action, and capable of great theatrics in the service of victory in battle, in capturing prizes, and in befuddling the enemy.
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 DUNDONALD, THOMAS COCHRANE, 10TH EARL OF (1775-186o) - Online Information article about DUNDONALD, THOMAS COCHRANE, ...
Baron Cochrane in 1647 and earl of Dundonald in 1669.
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl (1749-1831), who is remembered as a most ingenious, but also most unfortunate, scientific speculator and inventor, who was before his See also:
Captain A. Cochrane (1758-1832), while still a boy.
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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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 Political Career - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl Of Dundonald
Cochrane pursued a very active politics career, serving as Member of Parliament for Honiton from 1806 to 1807 and for Westminster from 1807 to 1815, and campaigning for parliamentary reform in Britain, being allied with such Radicals (UK) as William Cobbett 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, and his criticism of Admiral James Gambier conduct in the Battle of the Basque Roads (so severe as to require a court-martial of Gambier) made him enemies in the Admiralty.
The administration backed down: the Foreign Secretary, Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, announced that Cochrane and others had received a Royal Pardon.
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