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class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg/220px-Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg/330px-Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg/440px-Sir_Alexander_Cockburn_LCJ_by_GF_Watts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="717" data-file-height="892" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Portrait by <a href="/wiki/George_Frederic_Watts" title="George Frederic Watts">George Frederic Watts</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />24 June 1859 – 20 November 1880</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell">The Lord Campbell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Coleridge,_1st_Baron_Coleridge" title="John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge">The Lord Coleridge</a><br /><small>Lord Chief Justice of England</small></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_Common_Pleas" title="Chief Justice of the Common Pleas">Chief Justice of the Common Pleas</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 1856 – 24 June 1859</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Jervis_(judge)" title="John Jervis (judge)">John Jervis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Erle" title="William Erle">William Erle</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Alexander James Edmund Cockburn</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1802-12-24</span>)</span>24 December 1802<br /><a href="/wiki/Altona,_Hamburg" title="Altona, Hamburg">Altona</a>, Brandenburg<br /><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Kingdom of Prussia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">20 November 1880<span style="display:none">(1880-11-20)</span> (aged 77)<br />40 <a href="/wiki/Hertford_Street" title="Hertford Street">Hertford Street</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mayfair" title="Mayfair">Mayfair</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_of_London" title="County of London">London</a><br />United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery" title="Kensal Green Cemetery">Kensal Green Cemetery</a><br /><a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Brent" title="London Borough of Brent">Brent</a>, Greater London<br />United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Amelia (Emily) Godfrey (marriage not found)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Louisa Charlotte Cockburn<br />Alexander Dalton Cockburn</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge" title="Trinity Hall, Cambridge">Trinity Hall, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Barrister, judge</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath">GCB</a></span></span> (24 December 1802 – 20 November 1880) was a British <a href="/wiki/Jurist" title="Jurist">jurist</a> and politician who served as the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice</a> for 21 years. He heard some of the leading <i><a href="/wiki/Causes_c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bres" class="mw-redirect" title="Causes célèbres">causes célèbres</a></i> of the nineteenth century. </p><p>In 1847, he decided to stand for parliament, and was elected unopposed as <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> Member of Parliament for <a href="/wiki/Southampton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton</a>. His speech in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a> on behalf of the government in the <a href="/wiki/Don_Pacifico_affair" title="Don Pacifico affair">Don Pacifico dispute</a> with <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> commended him to <a href="/wiki/John_Russell,_1st_Earl_Russell" title="John Russell, 1st Earl Russell">Lord John Russell</a>, who appointed him <a href="/wiki/Solicitor_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Solicitor General for England and Wales">Solicitor-General</a> in 1850 and <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_for_England_and_Wales" title="Attorney General for England and Wales">Attorney General</a> in 1851, a post which he held till the resignation of the ministry in February 1852.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cockburn was born in <a href="/wiki/Altona,_Hamburg" title="Altona, Hamburg">Altona</a>, in what is now <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and was then part of <a href="/wiki/Brandenburg" title="Brandenburg">Brandenburg</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-census1851_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1851-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-census1861_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1861-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to Alexander Cockburn and his wife Yolande, daughter of René Michel de Vignier de La Saline, vicomte de Vignier,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Santo_Domingo" title="Santo Domingo">Santo Domingo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father served as British Consul to Hamburg and the Hanse towns and later as <a href="/wiki/Ambassador#Extraordinary_postings" title="Ambassador">envoy extraordinary</a> and minister <a href="/wiki/Plenipotentiary" title="Plenipotentiary">plenipotentiary</a> to <a href="/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Württemberg">Württemberg</a> and the Republic of <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_Kingdom_to_Colombia" title="List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Colombia">Colombia</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was the fourth son of <a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Cockburn,_8th_Baronet" title="Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet">Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet</a> (born c.1729, died July 1804), his three elder brothers having succeeded to the baronetcy, but died without heirs. </p><p>He was initially educated largely abroad and became fluent in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and familiar with <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>. He was educated at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge" title="Trinity Hall, Cambridge">Trinity Hall, Cambridge</a>, gaining a first in <a href="/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)" title="Civil law (common law)">Civil law</a> in 1824–5 and graduating in 1829 with an <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">LL.B.</a> degree, and also being elected a <a href="/wiki/Fellow#Oxford,_Cambridge_and_Dublin" title="Fellow">fellow</a>, and afterwards an honorary fellow.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He entered the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Temple" title="Middle Temple">Middle Temple</a> in 1825, and was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> in 1829. He joined the western circuit and built up a substantial practice though he was sufficiently diffident about his success in London to devote little of his energies there, not even keeping his <a href="/wiki/Barristers%27_chambers" title="Barristers' chambers">Chambers</a> open.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="As_advocate_(1832–1847)"><span id="As_advocate_.281832.E2.80.931847.29"></span>As advocate (1832–1847)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: As advocate (1832–1847)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Three years after his call, the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Reform Bill">Reform Bill</a> was passed. Cockburn started to practise in <a href="/wiki/Election_law" title="Election law">election law</a>, including acting for <a href="/wiki/Henry_Lytton_Bulwer" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Lytton Bulwer">Henry Lytton Bulwer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Ellice,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Ellice, Sr.">Edward Ellice</a>. In 1833, with William Rowe, he published a parliamentary brief on the decisions of election committees. In 1834, Ellice recommended Cockburn as member of the commission to enquire into the state of the corporations of England and <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>. Through his parliamentary work Cockburn met <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Parkes" title="Joseph Parkes">Joseph Parkes</a> and himself became interested in politics as a profession in itself, not simply as a pretext for legal argument. Cockburn had become ambitious and in 1838 he turned down the offer of a judicial appointment in India with the sentiment "I am going in for something better than that". He became <a href="/wiki/Recorder_(judge)" title="Recorder (judge)">Recorder</a> of <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a> and from that point started to reduce his election and parliamentary work in favour of more publicly notorious cases. In 1841 he was made a <a href="/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen's Counsel">Q.C.</a><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>Trial of Dr Cockburn</b>: In 1841 a charge of <a href="/wiki/Simony" title="Simony">simony</a>, brought against his uncle, <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Cockburn,_11th_Baronet" title="Sir William Cockburn, 11th Baronet">William</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_York" title="Dean of York">Dean of York</a>, enabled Cockburn to appear conspicuously in a case which attracted considerable public attention, the proceedings taking the form of a motion for <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_(writ)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prohibition (writ)">prohibition</a> duly obtained against the <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_court" title="Ecclesiastical court">ecclesiastical court</a>, which had deprived Dr Cockburn of his office.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Daniel McNaghten</b>: Sir <a href="/wiki/Robert_Peel" title="Robert Peel">Robert Peel</a>'s secretary, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Drummond" title="Edward Drummond">Edward Drummond</a>, was shot by <a href="/wiki/M%27Naghten_Rules" class="mw-redirect" title="M'Naghten Rules">Daniel McNaghten</a> in 1843. Cockburn, briefed on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassin</a>, made a speech which helped to establish the <a href="/wiki/Insanity_defence" class="mw-redirect" title="Insanity defence">insanity defence</a> in Britain for the next century.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the trial, Cockburn had made extensive and effective use of <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Ray" title="Isaac Ray">Isaac Ray</a>'s <i>Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity</i>. Cockburn quoted extensively from the book which rejected traditional views of the <a href="/wiki/Insanity_defence" class="mw-redirect" title="Insanity defence">insanity defence</a> based on the defendant's ability to distinguish "right from wrong" in favour of a broader approach based on <a href="/wiki/Causation_(law)" title="Causation (law)">causation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cockburn displayed a mastery of the scientific evidence and was an innovator in exploiting <a href="/wiki/Forensic_science" title="Forensic science">forensic science</a> in court.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The winner of the 1844 Derby</b>: In 1844, he appeared in <i>Wood v. Peel</i> to determine the winner of a bet (the <a href="/wiki/Gaming_Act_1845" title="Gaming Act 1845">Gaming Act 1845</a> deemed bets unenforceable in law) as to whether the <a href="/wiki/Epsom_Derby" title="Epsom Derby">Derby</a> winner <i>Running Rein</i> was a four-year-old or a three-year-old. <i>Running Rein</i> could not be produced when the judge, <a href="/wiki/Baron_Alderson" class="mw-redirect" title="Baron Alderson">Baron Alderson</a>, demanded, and as a result Cockburn lost the case, while his strenuous advocacy of his client's cause had led him into making, in his opening speech, strictures on <a href="/wiki/Lord_George_Bentinck" title="Lord George Bentinck">Lord George Bentinck</a>'s conduct in the case which should have been held back.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Lieutenant Henry Hawkey</b>: In 1846 Hawkey, an officer of the Royal Marines, was tried for murder at Winchester assizes after shooting <a href="/wiki/James_Alexander_Seton" title="James Alexander Seton">James Alexander Seton</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Duel" title="Duel">duel</a>; Cockburn secured Hawkey's acquittal. James Seton was the last British person to be killed in a duel in the United Kingdom.</li> <li><b>The Achilli trial</b>: During the short administration of <a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith-Stanley,_14th_Earl_of_Derby" title="Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby">Lord Derby</a>, Cockburn was engaged against <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Thesiger,_1st_Baron_Chelmsford" title="Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford">Sir Frederic Thesiger</a> Attorney General at the time, and for <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Newman" title="John Henry Newman">John Henry Newman</a>, in the case of a friar named <a href="/wiki/Giacinto_Achilli" title="Giacinto Achilli">Giacinto Achilli</a> who had accused Newman of libel. The jury who heard the case under <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell_of_St_Andrews" class="mw-redirect" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell of St Andrews">Lord Campbell</a> found that Newman's plea of justification was not proved except in one particular, a verdict which, together with the methods of the judge and the conduct of the audience, attracted considerable comment.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="As_law_officer_of_the_Crown_(1850–1856)"><span id="As_law_officer_of_the_Crown_.281850.E2.80.931856.29"></span>As law officer of the Crown (1850–1856)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As law officer of the Crown (1850–1856)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Lord_John_Russell" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord John Russell">Lord John Russell</a> appointed Cockburn as Solicitor-General in 1850, and as Attorney General in 1851, which latter post he held until the resignation of the ministry in February 1852. In December 1852, under <a href="/wiki/George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen" title="George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen">Lord Aberdeen's</a> <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Aberdeen Ministry">ministry</a>, Cockburn again became Attorney General, and remained so until 1856, taking part in many celebrated trials.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1854 Cockburn was made <a href="/wiki/Recorder_(judge)" title="Recorder (judge)">Recorder</a> of Bristol. </p><p>In 1854, Cockburn was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Commission_for_Consolidating_the_Statute_Law" title="Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law">Royal Commission for Consolidating the Statute Law</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Royal_commission" title="Royal commission">royal commission</a> to consolidate existing statutes and enactments of <a href="/wiki/English_law" title="English law">English law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cockburn shepherded through Parliament the Common Law Procedure Act 1852<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Common Law Procedure Act 1854.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b>William Palmer</b>: In his tenure as Attorney General from 1852 to 1856, he led for the crown in the trial of <a href="/wiki/William_Palmer_(murderer)" title="William Palmer (murderer)">William Palmer</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rugeley" title="Rugeley">Rugeley</a> in Staffordshire, an ex-medical man who poisoned a friend named Cook with <a href="/wiki/Strychnine" title="Strychnine">strychnine</a> in order to steal from his estate. Cockburn made an exhaustive study of the medical aspects of the case and won a conviction after a twelve-day trial, again demonstrating his skill with forensic science.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The Hopwood will case</b> (1855).<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Swynfen_will_case" title="Swynfen will case">Swynfen will case</a></b> (1856).<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="As_judge_(1856–1880)"><span id="As_judge_.281856.E2.80.931880.29"></span>As judge (1856–1880)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: As judge (1856–1880)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1856, he became <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_the_Common_Pleas" title="Chief Justice of the Common Pleas">Chief Justice of the Common Pleas</a>. He inherited the <a href="/wiki/Baronet" title="Baronet">baronetcy</a> in 1858. In 1859, <a href="/wiki/John_Campbell,_1st_Baron_Campbell" title="John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell">Lord Campbell</a> became <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor" title="Lord Chancellor">Lord Chancellor</a>, and Cockburn became <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chief_Justice_of_England_and_Wales" title="Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales">Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench</a>. </p><p>Cockburn always sought out the most sensational cases and was astute in rearranging his diary so that he could sit in any trial likely to attract the attention of the press.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several Prime Ministers offered to nominate Cockburn for a peerage, and he finally accepted the offer in 1864. However, Queen Victoria refused, noting that "this peerage has been more than once previously refused upon the ground of the notoriously bad moral character of the Chief Justice".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1875, the three English common law courts (the Queen's Bench, the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_(England)" title="Court of Common Pleas (England)">Court of Common Pleas</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Exchequer_of_pleas" class="mw-redirect" title="Exchequer of pleas">Court of the Exchequer</a>) merged to become divisions of the new <a href="/wiki/High_Court_of_Justice" title="High Court of Justice">High Court of Justice</a>. The head of each court (Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas <a href="/wiki/John_Coleridge,_1st_Baron_Coleridge" title="John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge">Lord Coleridge</a>, and Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir <a href="/wiki/Fitzroy_Kelly" title="Fitzroy Kelly">Fitzroy Kelly</a>) continued in post. After the deaths of Kelly and Cockburn in 1880, the three divisions were merged into a single division, with Lord Coleridge as Lord Chief Justice of England.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i><b>Martin v. Mackonachie</b></i>: Cockburn sitting in the Queen's Bench division granted a writ to quash <a href="/wiki/James_Wilde,_1st_Baron_Penzance" title="James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance">Lord Penzance</a>'s suspension of <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Heriot_Mackonochie" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Heriot Mackonochie">Alexander Heriot Mackonochie</a> from his clerical office for breach of the <a href="/wiki/Public_Worship_Regulation_Act_1874" title="Public Worship Regulation Act 1874">Public Worship Regulation Act 1874</a>. Cockburn's decision was overturned by the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Appeal_of_England_and_Wales" class="mw-redirect" title="Court of Appeal of England and Wales">Court of Appeal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Tichborne_Case" class="mw-redirect" title="Tichborne Case">Tichborne Case</a></b>: Cockburn presided over the civil case in which <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Orton" title="Arthur Orton">Arthur Orton</a> attempted to establish his identity as the missing baronet Sir Roger Tichborne. This trial collapsed after 103 days, the longest civil trial on record. Cockburn then presided over the subsequent trial of Orton for <a href="/wiki/Perjury" title="Perjury">perjury</a>, a famous trial that lasted 188 days, setting a record for criminal trials, of which Cockburn CJ's summing-up occupied eighteen.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><b>R v. Hicklin</b></i>: He developed the <a href="/wiki/Hicklin_test" title="Hicklin test">Hicklin test</a> for obscenity.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Alabama_claims" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama claims">The <i>Alabama</i> claims</a></b>: He also played a role in the arbitration of the <i>Alabama</i> claims at <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a> in 1872, in which he represented the British government. He dissented from the majority view as to British liability for the actions of British-built privateer ships. He prepared the English translation of the arbitrators' award and published a controversial dissenting opinion in which he admitted British liability for the actions of the <a href="/wiki/CSS_Alabama" title="CSS Alabama">CSS <i>Alabama</i></a>, though not on the grounds given in the award, and discounted liability for the <a href="/wiki/CSS_Florida" title="CSS Florida">CSS <i>Florida</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/CSS_Shenandoah" title="CSS Shenandoah">CSS <i>Shenandoah</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Overend,_Gurney_and_Company" title="Overend, Gurney and Company">Overend-Gurney</a> fraud trial</b>: the trial of the partners of Overend & Gurney, a bank that had collapsed in spectacular circumstances following precarious risks taken by the managers. In his summing up, Cockburn expressed the view that the <a href="/wiki/Defendant" title="Defendant">defendants</a> had been guilty of nothing more than "grave error".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><b>Woodley v. Metropolitan District Railway Co.</b></i>:<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Woodley was set to repair a wall in a darkened railway tunnel in which trains continued to run, without warning or dedicated lookout, and with barely sufficient clearance between train and wall for the workman to make himself safe when a train passed. Woodley was seriously injured when he reached across the rail for a tool and was struck by a passing train. Cockburn CJ held that the employer was not liable, invoking the principle of <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Volenti_non-fit_injuria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Volenti non-fit injuria (page does not exist)">volenti non-fit injuria</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Ryves" title="Lavinia Ryves">Lavinia Ryves</a>'s claim</b> to be the daughter of <a href="/wiki/Prince_Henry,_Duke_of_Cumberland_and_Strathearn" title="Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn">Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn</a>, a claim that ultimately failed after Cockburn CJ told the jury in summing up that Ryves's evidence comprised "outrages on all probability".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The trial of <a href="/wiki/Michael_Barrett_(Fenian)" title="Michael Barrett (Fenian)">Michael Barrett</a></b> for the <a href="/wiki/Clerkenwell_explosion" title="Clerkenwell explosion">Clerkenwell explosion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The trial of <a href="/wiki/Boulton_and_Park" title="Boulton and Park">Boulton and Park</a></b> for transvestism and "conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The trial of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Wainwright" title="Henry Wainwright">Henry Wainwright</a></b> for murder.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crime, in which Wainwright was arrested in possession of the dismembered body of his victim, was given more publicity at the time than those of <a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper" title="Jack the Ripper">Jack the Ripper</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne_manslaughter" title="Eastbourne manslaughter">Eastbourne manslaughter</a></b></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personality">Personality</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In personal appearance Cockburn was of small stature with a large head, but possessed a very dignified manner. He enjoyed <a href="/wiki/Yachting" title="Yachting">yachting</a> and other sport, and writing (he wrote an unpublished novel). Something of an adventurer in his youth, he was fond of socialising and womanising, fathering two illegitimate children. He "was also throughout his life addicted to frivolities not altogether consistent with advancement in a learned profession, or with the positions of dignity which he successively occupied." He lived for many years in some state at <a href="/wiki/Wakehurst_Place" title="Wakehurst Place">Wakehurst Place</a> in Sussex. In his later years, he reminisced, "Whatever happens, I have had my whack". He once had to escape through the window of the <a href="/wiki/Robing_room" class="mw-redirect" title="Robing room">robing room</a> at <a href="/wiki/Rougemont_Castle" title="Rougemont Castle">Rougemont Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Exeter" title="Exeter">Exeter</a>, to evade <a href="/wiki/Bailiff" title="Bailiff">bailiffs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly before he became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Cockburn was walking in London's <a href="/wiki/Haymarket_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Haymarket (London)">Haymarket</a> with fellow barrister <a href="/wiki/William_Ballantine" title="William Ballantine">William Ballantine</a> when he saw a <a href="/wiki/Police_constable" class="mw-redirect" title="Police constable">police constable</a> roughly handling a woman. The pair stopped to protest but found themselves accused of obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty, arrested by the constable and conveyed to <a href="/wiki/Vine_Street,_Westminster" class="mw-redirect" title="Vine Street, Westminster">Vine Street Police Station</a>. At the station they met an acquaintance who explained to the inspector who they were and they were released.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was a passionate champion of the proper role of the advocate and on the occasion of a reception for <a href="/wiki/Antoine_Pierre_Berryer" class="mw-redirect" title="Antoine Pierre Berryer">Antoine Pierre Berryer</a> in <a href="/wiki/Middle_Temple_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Temple Hall">Middle Temple Hall</a>, said:<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p> The arms which an advocate wields he ought to use as a warrior, not as an assassin. He ought to uphold the interests of his clients <i>per fas</i>, not <i>per nefas</i>. He ought to know how to reconcile the interests of his clients with the eternal interests of truth and justice. </p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><i>The Times</i>, 9 November 1864</cite></div></blockquote> <p>As a judge he did not have the highest reputation, with a joke within the legal profession being that he became a first rate judge only because he sat with <a href="/wiki/Colin_Blackburn,_Baron_Blackburn" title="Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn">Lord Blackburn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Francis_Adams,_Sr." class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Francis Adams, Sr.">Charles Francis Adams, Sr.</a>, a fellow judge on the Geneva tribunal to resolve the <a href="/wiki/Alabama_claims" class="mw-redirect" title="Alabama claims">Alabama claims</a> issue, felt that Sir Alexander's temper was so short that he seemed mentally unbalanced.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_death">Family and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Family and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although Cockburn never married, he had one acknowledged illegitimate son and one illegitimate daughter by the unmarried <b>Amelia (Emily) Godfrey</b> (17 September 1818, baptised 11 October 1818 All Saints' Church, Epping), the daughter of William Daniel Leake Godfrey (1788–1868) and his wife Louisa Hannah (née Dalley, 1791–1852):<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-haffenden_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-haffenden-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ancestry_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ancestry-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><b>Louisa Charlotte Cockburn</b> (3 August 1838 <a href="/wiki/Stratford,_London" title="Stratford, London">Stratford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> baptised 16 June 1839 All Saints' Church, West Ham, Essex – <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a> 25 April 1869<sup id="cite_ref-census1861_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1861-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), who married at <a href="/wiki/Chelsea,_London" title="Chelsea, London">Chelsea</a>, London, on 25 June 1863<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the Rev. Charles William Cavendish (<a href="/wiki/Chiswick" title="Chiswick">Chiswick</a> 24 September 1822 – Ryde, Isle of Wight 21 December 1890),<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rector of <a href="/wiki/Little_Casterton" title="Little Casterton">Little Casterton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rutland" title="Rutland">Rutland</a>, later a Catholic convert who became secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_Propagation_of_the_Faith" title="Society for the Propagation of the Faith">Society for the Propagation of the Faith</a>, and a grandson of <a href="/wiki/George_Cavendish,_1st_Earl_of_Burlington" title="George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington">George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington</a>, with issue: <ol><li><b>Louis Francis John Charles Raphael Cavendish</b> (24 October 1864<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 31 December 1890<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), who never married<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-freebmd_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freebmd-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ol></li> <li><b>Alexander Cockburn Dalton or Alexander Dalton (Alex) Cockburn</b> (<a href="/wiki/Sydenham,_London" title="Sydenham, London">Sydenham</a> bapt 10 Sep 1845 – <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a> 16 July 1887<sup id="cite_ref-census1861_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1861-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ), Capt. 2nd Regt Life Guards, who never married<sup id="cite_ref-freebmd_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freebmd-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and to whom Cockburn left the majority of his fortune.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son did not succeed him as <a href="/wiki/Baronet_of_Langton" class="mw-redirect" title="Baronet of Langton">Baronet of Langton</a>, which became dormant.</li></ol> <p>Cockburn died on 20 November 1880,<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of <a href="/wiki/Angina_pectoris" class="mw-redirect" title="Angina pectoris">angina pectoris</a> at his house at 40 <a href="/wiki/Hertford_Street" title="Hertford Street">Hertford Street</a>, Mayfair, London; he had continued working up until his death despite three heart attacks and warnings from his doctor.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As he never married, he produced no legitimate heirs, despite having a surviving male child. As a result, the baronetcy became dormant upon his death.<sup id="cite_ref-eb_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His remains were deposited in Catacomb A of <a href="/wiki/Kensal_Green_Cemetery" title="Kensal Green Cemetery">Kensal Green Cemetery</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ancestors">Ancestors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ancestors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886387087">.mw-parser-output table.ahnentafel{border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0;line-height:130%}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel tr{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-t{border-top:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}.mw-parser-output .ahnentafel-b{border-bottom:#000 solid 1px;border-left:#000 solid 1px}</style><div class="noresize"><table class="collapsible collapsed" style="margin:0.3em 0;min-width:60em;width:auto;font-size:88%;border:1px solid #aaa"><tbody><tr><th style="padding:0.2em 0.3em 0.2em 4.3em;background:none;color:inherit;width:auto">Ancestors of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet<sup id="cite_ref-ahnentafel_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ahnentafel-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center"><table class="ahnentafel" style=""><tbody><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="124" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="61"> </td><td rowspan="60" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="29"> </td><td rowspan="28" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="13"> </td><td rowspan="12" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="5"> </td><td rowspan="4" colspan="2"> </td><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">32. Archibald Cockburn, 4th Bart (died 1705)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">16. Alexander Cockburn, 6th Bart (died 1739)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">33. Marion Sinclair</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">8. William Cockburn</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">17. Mary Ancrum</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">4. <a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Cockburn,_8th_Baronet" title="Sir James Cockburn, 8th Baronet">James Cockburn, 8th Bart</a> (1729–1804)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="31" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="30" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">32.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">18. James Cockburn (died 1718)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">33.</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">9. Frances Cockburn</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">2. Alexander Cockburn (1776–1852)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="63" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="62" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="31" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="30" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">20. Gabriel Ayscough</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">10. <a href="/wiki/Francis_Ayscough" title="Francis Ayscough">Francis Ayscough</a> (1701–1763)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">21. Mary</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">5. <a href="/wiki/Augusta_Anne_Ayscough" class="mw-redirect" title="Augusta Anne Ayscough">Augusta Anne Ayscough</a> (1749–1837)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="31"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="30" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">44. <a href="/wiki/Sir_Charles_Lyttelton,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet">Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Bart</a> (1628–1716)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">22. <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Lyttelton,_4th_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet">Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bart</a> (1686–1751)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">45. Anne Temple (died 1718)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">11. Anne Lyttelton (1714–1776)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">46. <a href="/wiki/Sir_Richard_Temple,_3rd_Baronet" title="Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Baronet">Richard Temple, 3rd Bart</a> (1634–1697)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">23. Christian Temple</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">47. Mary Knapp (died 1726)</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">1. Alexander Cockburn, 12th Bart (1802–1880)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="19"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="64" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="63" class="ahnentafel-b"> </td><td rowspan="62" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="31"> </td><td rowspan="30" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">6. René Michel de Vignier de La Saline, vicomte de Vignier</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="11"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="31" class="ahnentafel-t"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="30" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="14" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="7"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="6" colspan="2"> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td rowspan="2" colspan="4" style="border:1px solid black;height:0.5em; padding:0 0.2em;">3. Yolande de Vignier (1780–1810)</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="15"> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arms">Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="max-width: 100%"> <caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="min-width:175px;"> <dl><dt>Crest</dt> <dd>A cock Proper.</dd> <dt>Escutcheon</dt> <dd>Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules six mascles Or three two and one 2nd & 3rd Argent three cocks Gules.</dd> <dt>Supporters</dt> <dd>On either side a lion Gules the sinister guardant.</dd> <dt>Motto</dt> <dd>Vigilans Et Audax <sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sir_Alexander_Cockburn,_12th_Baronet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Cockburn aged 22 born Stratford, Essex; Alexander Cockburn aged 15 born Sydenham, Surrey – RG9/716 f.19 p. 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">So styled in English sources and reference books, but the title seems correctly to be attributable to his eldest brother. 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G. E. Buckle; cited in the <a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThe_Lord_Burnett_of_Maldon2019" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Burnett,_Baron_Burnett_of_Maldon" title="Ian Burnett, Baron Burnett of Maldon">The Lord Burnett of Maldon</a> (14 November 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191114-FINAL-Plymouth-lecture-Nov2019-For-publication-1.pdf">"What's in a Name? The High Court and its Divisions"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>judiciary.uk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Alexander+Heriot+Mackonochie%3A+A+Memoir&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Kegan+Paul%2C+Trench%2C+Tr%C3%BCbner%2C+%26+Co.&rft.date=1890&rft.au=Towle%2C+E.+A.%2C+ed.+Russell%2C+E.+F.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list" title="Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list">link</a>)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://anglicanhistory.org/england/ahmackonochie/towle1890/09.html">Chapter IX</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diamond (2004) 60–61</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">[Anon.] (2001) "Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund, 10th Baronet", <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> Deluxe CD-ROM</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFElliott,_G.2006" class="citation book cs1">Elliott, G. 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London: Methuen. pp. 212–221. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-413-77573-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-413-77573-9"><bdi>0-413-77573-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mystery+of+Overend+%26+Gurney%3A+A+Financial+Scandal+in+Victorian+London&rft.place=London&rft.pages=212-221&rft.pub=Methuen&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-413-77573-9&rft.au=Elliott%2C+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">(1877) 2 Ex D 384</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLunney,_M.Oliphant,_K.2003" class="citation book cs1">Lunney, M. & Oliphant, K. (2003). <i>Tort Law: Text and Materials</i> (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 254–255. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-926055-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-926055-9"><bdi>0-19-926055-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tort+Law%3A+Text+and+Materials&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pages=254-255&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-19-926055-9&rft.au=Lunney%2C+M.&rft.au=Oliphant%2C+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kingston (1923) <i>pp</i>172–174</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kingston (1923) <i>pp</i>174–175</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Diamond (2004) 121–122</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRenton1898" class="citation journal cs1">Renton, A. 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Rev</i>. <b>395</b>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=10+Jurid.+Rev.&rft.atitle=The+Judicial+Work+of+Chief+Justice+Cockburn&rft.volume=395&rft.date=1898&rft.aulast=Renton&rft.aufirst=A.+Wood&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fheinonline.org%2FHOL%2FLandingPage%3Fcollection%3Djournals%26handle%3Dhein.journals%2Fjure10%26div%3D37%26id%3D%26page%3D&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWiener2004" class="citation book cs1">Wiener, Martin J. 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"A World on Fire".Allen Lane, 2010, p. 811.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-haffenden-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-haffenden_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927012248/http://www.owlpen.com/Haffenden_family_tree.pdf">"Haffenden family tree"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.owlpen.com/Haffenden_family_tree.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 27 September 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Haffenden+family+tree&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.owlpen.com%2FHaffenden_family_tree.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">(120 KB)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nicholas Mander (2011). <i>Borromean Rings: The Genealogy of the Mander Family</i>. Owlpen Press. Pages 204-5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ancestry-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ancestry_35-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk">"Louisa Charlotte Cockburn born 1838"</a>. All Saints' Church, West Ham, Essex Baptism Register<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 August</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Louisa+Charlotte+Cockburn+born+1838&rft.pub=All+Saints%27+Church%2C+West+Ham%2C+Essex+Baptism+Register&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ancestry.co.uk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASir+Alexander+Cockburn%2C+12th+Baronet" class="Z3988"></span> born 3 August 1838; bapt 16 June 1839; father = Alexander Edmund Cockburn; mother = Emily Cockburn</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Deaths – JUN 1869 2b 332 I WIGHT Aged 30</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Marriages – JUN 1863 1a 417 CHELSEA. Cavendish = Cockburn</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Deaths – DEC 1890 2b 409 I WIGHT Aged 68</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Births – DEC 1864 1a 242 ST GEO HAN SQ</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Deaths – MAR 1891 1a 445 WESTMINSTER Aged 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1871 Census for England: Aged 6 of Burlington Gardens, Westminster, London – RG10/137 f.31 p. 25</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1881 Census for England: Aged 16 of Charlemont, Spencer Drive, Chiswick, London – RG11/1178 f.43 p. 37</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freebmd-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-freebmd_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-freebmd_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freebmd.org.uk/">FreeBMD </a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1871 Census for England: Cavalry Officer, unmarried aged 26, of Cavalry Barracks, Clewer, Berkshire – RG10/1302 f.89 p. 1 – born Sydenham, Surrey</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">1881 Census for England: Unmarried of no occupation, aged 35, of 24 James Street, Westminster, London – RG11/118 f.105 p. 41 – born Sydenham</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations): Alexander Dalton Cockburn, Esq. ... formerly Captain in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards who died 16 July 1887 at 59 Jermyn Street, London ...Probate 2 September 1887</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ahnentafel-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ahnentafel_47-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancestry.co.uk/">"Ancestors of Alexander Edmund Cockburn"</a>. 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