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==Family== [[File:Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, his family, David Octavius Hill and John Henning by Robert Adamson (2).jpg|thumb|Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, his family, David Octavius Hill and John Henning by Robert Adamson, 1840s]] [[File:Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn from "The Scottish Bar Fifty Years Ago".PNG|thumb|Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn by [[Robert Scott Moncrieff]]]] Cockburn married Elizabeth Macdowall, daughter of [[James Macdowall]] and his second wife Margaret Jamieson, in [[Edinburgh]], Midlothian, on 12 March 1811. As was common in the period he had both a [[Townhouse (Great Britain)|town house]] and [[English country house|country house]]. The country house was at [[Bonaly]], on the south-west edge of [[Edinburgh]].<ref name="odnb">{{Cite ODNB|id=5771|title=Cockburn, Henry, Lord Cockburn}}</ref> His large town house at 14 [[Charlotte Square]], in the west end of the city, was designed by [[Robert Adam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.nls.uk/83400051|title=Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833|website=National Library of Scotland|page=38|access-date=2018-02-18}}</ref> They had five daughters and six sons:<ref name="Peter Beauclerk Dewar 2001 page 884"/> * Margaret Day Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 24 January 1812, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1812 β 1818) (buried in [[St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh|St Cuthberts churchyard]] in Edinburgh * Jane Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 1813, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 July 1813 β ) * Archibald William Cockburn,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/b21465812/b21465812_djvu.txt |title=Full text of "List of fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh [electronic resource] : from the year 1581 to 31st December 1873" |date=2016-10-23 |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> FRCSE (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 5 December 1814, bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 23 December 1814 β [[Murrayfield]], Midlothian, 13 January 1862), Fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]], married at St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 12 March 1844 to Mary Ann Balfour (2 November 1816 β ?), and had four sons: ** Henry Cockburn (1849 β ?) ** James Balfour Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 July 1851 β ?) ** Archibald Francis Cockburn (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 8 November 1853 β ?) ** Moncrieff Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 22 September 1855 β ?) * James Macdowell Cockburn (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 7 March 1816 β ?) * Graham Cockburn, a daughter (bap. Edinburgh, Midlothian, 7 March 1817 β ?), married Rev. [[Robert Walter Stewart]] (later [[Moderator of the General Assembly]] of the Free Church of Scotland)<ref>Ewing, William ''Annals of the Free Church''</ref> * George Ferguson Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 31 January 1818 β 1866), married to Sarah Charlotte Bishop, and had four daughters: ** Elizabeth Frances Cockburn (1845β1925), married to Henry Charles Biddulph Cotton Raban (1837 β [[Chittagong]], [[Bengal]], 20 March 1871), who was with the [[Bengal Civil Service]], and had one daughter: *** Catherine Charlotte Raban (Chittagong, Bengal, 12 June 1870 β 1954), married at [[Axebridge]], Somerset, in 1893 to [[Arthur Waugh]] (1866β1943) and had two sons, [[Alec Waugh]] and [[Evelyn Waugh]] ** Isabella Graham Cockburn (c. 1848 β [[Kensington]], London, 5 January 1926), married on 31 January 1894 as his third wife to Sir [[James Shaw Hay]] (25 October 1839 β 20 June 1924), without issue ** Mary Ann Amy Macrae Cockburn ([[Calcutta]], 29 August 1855 β 23 April 1942), married on 6 June 1877 to Walter St. George Burke of [[Auberies]], [[Bulmer, Essex|Bulmer]], Essex, JP (27 April 1842 β 17 February 1916), [[Lieutenant Colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] in the service of the [[Royal Engineers]], [[Justice of the Peace]] for [[Essex]] and for [[Suffolk]], son of [[James St. George Burke]] and wife Anne Eliza Grubbe, and had issue ** Georgina Maria Joanna Cockburn, married [[Spencer Campbell Thomson]] [[FRSE]] FFA in 1869 * Henry Day Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 21 April 1820 β ?), married at [[South Yarra]], [[Victoria, Australia|Victoria]], in 1857 to Mary Ann Matherley * Lawrence Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 25 February 1822 β [[Brighton, Victoria]], 2 September 1871), a [[Squatting (Australian history)|squatter]], married at Brighton, Victoria, in 1859 to Annie Maria Smith, and had one son: ** Henry Cockburn ([[Melbourne]], Victoria, 1862 β ?) * Francis Jeffrey Cockburn ([[Edinburgh]], Midlothian, 8 January 1825 β [[Brentford]], London, 10 July 1893<ref>England and Wales National Probate Calendar, 1893, p. 90: "Cockburn Francis Jeffrey of 2 Kent-avenue Ealing Middlesex gentleman died 10 July 1893 Probate London 25 August to Eliza Anne Cockburn widow Henry Cockburn esquire and Robert Henry Kinsey surgeon Effects Β£4019 16''s''. 4''d''."</ref>), a Judge in [[British Raj|India]] and with the [[Bengal Civil Service]], and wife (Calcutta or [[Westbury, Tasmania|Westbury]], Tasmania, 25 January 1855) Elizabeth Anne (Eliza Ann) Pitcairn ([[Hobart]], Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap. Hobart, Tasmania, 7 November 1831 β [[Wycombe, Oxfordshire|Wycombe]], Oxfordshire, 1923), daughter of Robert Pitcairn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 17 July 1802 β Hobart, Tasmania, 1868) (son of David Pitcairn and Mary Henderson) and wife (m. Hobart, Tasmania, 30 September 1830) Dorothy/Dorothea Jessy Dumas, and had five daughters and two sons: ** Helen Macdowall Cockburn (Calcutta, 14 June 1857, bap. Calcutta, 17 July 1857 β ?) ** [[Henry Cockburn (consul)|Henry Cockburn]] (Calcutta, 2 March 1859 β 1927?) ** Elizabeth Pitcairn Cockburn (Calcutta, 20 March 1863, bap. Calcutta, 25 April 1863 β ?) ** Robert Pitcairn Cockburn (Bengal, 1865, bap. [[Sylhet]], Bengal, 7 December 1865 β ?), married at [[South Stoneham]], Hampshire, in 1909 to Elinor Francis Mary Bellett (31 January 1881 β 16 September 1975), and had three sons and one daughter: *** Francis Bellett Cockburn (Brentford, London, 31 July 1910 β ?) *** Robert Waring Pitcairn Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1911 β ?), married to Jean Elizabeth Swinnerton and had one son and one daughter: **** David Charles Alexander Cockburn **** Susan Elinor Cockburn *** Henry Dundas Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1913 β 4 December 1998), [[Medical Superintendent]] at the [[Royal London Hospital]], London *** Elinor Phyllis Cockburn (Brentford, London, 1915 β ?) ** Jane Cockburn (Bengal, c. 1868 β ?) ** Margaret G. Cockburn (Bengal, c. 1870 β ?) ** Gertrude C. Cockburn ([[German Empire|Germany]], c. 1875 β ?) * Elizabeth Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 30 June 1826 β 6 April 1908), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 27 December 1848 to Thomas Cleghorn [[FRSE]] (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 3 March 1818 β 18 June 1874), a practising Advocate, who rose to be Sheriff of Argyle. * Johanna Richardson Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 14 January 1831 β 1888), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 21 October 1856 to her cousin Archibald David Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 6 September 1826 β 1886), son of John Cockburn and wife Eliza Dewar, and had issue The authors [[Alec Waugh]] and [[Evelyn Waugh]], the journalist [[Claud Cockburn]], [[Claudia Cockburn]] (wife of actor [[Michael Flanders]]) and author [[Sarah Caudwell]] were all descended from Cockburn, as are journalists [[Laura Flanders]], [[Stephanie Flanders]], [[Alexander Cockburn]] (husband of author [[Emma Tennant]]), [[Andrew Cockburn]] (husband of journalist [[Leslie Cockburn]]) and [[Patrick Cockburn]] (son-in-law of Bishop [[Hugh Montefiore]]) and actress [[Olivia Wilde]] (former wife of [[Tao Ruspoli]]).<ref>Monuments and Statues of Edinburgh, Michael T.R.B. Turnbull (Chambers) p. 54</ref>
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