DUN DONALD

Thomas Cochrane , 10 Earl of ( eld. child of 9 Earl of Dun donald 1748–1831 ). b. Anns field, Lan arks hire 14 Dec. 1775; midshipman R.N. 27 June 1793, captain 8 Aug. 1801; destroyed French shipping in road of Île d’Aix 11 April 1809; contested Honiton 1805, M.P. for Honiton 1806–1807; M.P. for Westminster 23 May 1807 to 5 July 1814 when expelled; M.P. again 16 July 1814 to 10 June 1818; lost his rank in navy 25 June 1814; sentenced to pay a fine of £1000 and to be imprisoned in King’s Bench prison for a year 21 June 1814 having been convicted unjustly of a stock-jobbing fraud 8 June 1814; commanded Chilian navy Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1822, Brazilian navy 21 March 1823 to 10 Nov. 1825, Greek navy Feb. 1827 to 1828; created Marque of Maranham by Don Pedro of Brazil 1823; reinstated in his place in the navy by Wm. iv, 2 May 1832; R.A. 8 May 1832; commander in chief on North American and West Indian stations 12 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1851; admiral 21 March 1851; R.A. of United Kingdom 29 Oct. 1854; K.B. 26 April 1809 to 5 July 1814 when expelled, reinstated 22 May 1847; G.C.B. 25 May 1847; author of Narrative of the liberation of Chili 2 vols. 1858. d. 12 Prince Albert road, Kensington, London 31 Oct. 1860. bur. centre of nave of Westminster Abbey 14 Nov. Autobiography of a Seaman 2 vols. 1860, portrait ; Life of Lord Cochrane by T. B. Cochrane and H. R. F. Bourne 2 vols. 1869, portrait ; W. C. Town send’s Modern state trials ii , 1–111 (1850); Army and navy mag. i , 113–29 (1881), portrait ; Law mag. and law review x , 203–35 (1861), xi , 188–201; I.L.N. xxxvii , 471, 472 (1860), portrait .