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unusual facts about Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald



Ann Harvey

From Government House, Governor Thomas Cochrane applied to the Royal Humane Society for recognition of the family and a special medal was struck.

Antonio Álvarez Jonte

He arrived in Chile with Admiral Thomas Cochrane in November 1818, with the navy's ships intended to move the Army of the Andes to Peru.

Battle of 4 May

The Battle of 4 May was fought in open sea near Salvador, Bahia, on 4 May 1823, between the Brazilian Navy, under the command of a former admiral of the British Royal Navy, Thomas Cochrane, and the Portuguese Navy during the Brazilian War of Independence.

Blanketeers

A Reform Bill for universal suffrage was drafted, with considerable input from the Northern radicals, and presented to Parliament at the end of January by Thomas Cochrane, but it was rejected on procedural grounds by the House of Commons.

Cochrane, Chile

The town was later named Cochrane in honour of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, a British naval captain and radical politician who was appointed the first Admiral of the Chilean Navy in 1818 and made a major contribution to winning independence for the young nation from Spain.

Corral, Chile

In 1820 Thomas Cochrane, commanding the newly created Chilean Navy, took Corral and Valdivia by an amphibious attack.

Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald

Lord Dundonald died at his home in Wimbledon in April 1935, aged 82, and was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son, Thomas.

Cochrane was the second but eldest surviving son of Thomas Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald, by Louisa Harriet Mackinnon, daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon.

Île-d'Aix

On the night of 11 April 1809 Captain Thomas Cochrane led a British fireship attack against a powerful squadron of French ships anchored in the Basque Roads.

Michel-Jean Cazabon

Several other less extensive, but important collections were commissioned by William Burnley, the Scottish-American planter, John Lamont and the Earl of Dundonald.

Ralph Cochrane

Ralph Cochrane was born on 24 February 1895, the youngest son of Thomas Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults, in the Scottish village of Springfield.

Real Felipe Fortress

During 16 January 1819, the fortress repulsed an attack from Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane during the reign of viceroy Joaquín de la Pezuela.

Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald

He later gave evidence in court against the Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who had surrendered the city to the Jacobites.

Valença, Bahia

It harbored the fleet of Lord Cochrane, who came to fight the Portuguese in 1823.

War of Independence of Brazil

At sea, the Brazilian action was led by Thomas Cochrane.

William Brodie Gurney

He reported the impeachment of Lord Melville in 1806, the proceedings against the Duke of York in 1809, the trials of Lord Cochrane in 1814 and of Arthur Thistlewood in 1820, and the proceedings against Queen Caroline.

William Haldimand

He supported Greek independence, sending the insurgents of the Greek War of Independence funds by his nephew, and guaranteeing Admiral Thomas Cochrane £20,000 to equip a fleet.


see also

Baron Lamington

He was the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, son of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane, sixth son of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald (see the Earl of Dundonald for earlier history of the Cochrane family).