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    COCHRANE, Thomas, Lord Cochrane (), of Holly Hill, Titchfield, Hants.

    Family and Education

    b. 14 Dec. , 1st s. of Archibald, 9th Earl of Dundonald [S], by 1st w. Anne, da. of Capt. James Gilchrist, RN. educ. privately, Chavet’s mil. acad., Kensington, Mdx.; Edinburgh Univ. m. secretly at Annan, 8 Aug. , and publicly 22 June , Katherine Frances Corbett, da. of Thomas Barnes of Romford Essex, 4s. 1da. KB 24 Apr. , expelled 15 July , reinstated as GCB 22 May ; suc. fa. as 10th Earl of Dundonald [S] 1 July

    Offices Held

    Ensign Balder’s ind. co. ft. ; lt. 78 Ft. and Wood’s ind. co. ft. ; capt. Ft.

    Entered RN , lt. , cdr. , capt. , struck off navy list ; restored as r.-adm. , v.-adm. ; c.-in-c. W.I. and N. America ; adm. ; r.-adm. of UK d.

    Elder bro. Trinity House d.

    Biography

    The Dundonald family fortunes were already at a low ebb when Cochrane’s eccentric father succeeded to the title in His attempts to revive them through the promotion of industrial chemistry, in w

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    Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

    British naval officer, politician and mercenary (–)

    "Le Loup des Mers" redirects here. For the comic book, see The Sea Wolf (comic book).

    AdmiralThomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of MaranhãoGCB (14 December – 31 October ), styled Lord Cochrane between and , was a British naval officer, politician and mercenary. Serving during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy, his naval successes led Napoleon to nickname him le Loup des Mers (the Sea Wolf). He was successful in virtually all of his naval actions.[2]

    Cochrane was dismissed from the Royal Navy in after a controversial conviction for fraud on the London Stock Exchange.[3] Travelling to South America, he helped to organise and lead the revolutionary navies of Chile and Brazil during their respective wars of independence during the s.[4] While commanding the Chilean Navy, Cochrane also contributed to Peruvian ind

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    Memorial to Thomas Cochrane in thed Village of Culross
     

    Thomas Alexander Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB, lived from 14 December to 31 October He achieved fame as one of the most daring and successful naval captains of the Napoleonic Wars, and later led the navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece in independence struggles. He was also, until pardoned, a convicted fraudster; he was a moderately successful politician; and he even found time to be an inventor and person som äger eller driver industrier. The wider picture in Scotland at the time fryst vatten set out in our Historical Timeline.

    Thomas Cochrane was born at Annsfield, near Hamilton, the son of Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald and nephew of Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane. Much of Thomas's childhood was spent in and around the family estates at Culross in Fife. His father was a renowned, if commercially unsuccessful, inventor, who by had lost much of the family fortune back