Editing Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn (section)

==Death and legacy==
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[[File:Grave of Henry, Lord Cockburn, Dean Cemetery Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|left|140px|Cockburn's grave in the Dean Cemetery]]
Cockburn died on 26 April 1854, at his [[mansion]] of [[Bonaly]], near [[Edinburgh]]<ref name="odnb" /> and is buried in the city's [[Dean Cemetery]]. A statue of him by local sculptor [[William Brodie (sculptor)|William Brodie]] stands in the north-east corner of [[Parliament House, Edinburgh#Parliament Hall|Parliament Hall]].

Cockburn Street, built in the 1850s to connect the [[Royal Mile|High Street]] with the [[North British Railway|North British Railway's]] [[Edinburgh Waverley railway station|Waverley station]], is also named after him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Stuart |title=The Place Names of Edinburgh: Their Origins and History |date=2002 |publisher=Steve Savage Publishers |isbn=1-904246-06-0 |page=170}}</ref>  The building at the foot of the street, formerly the "Cockburn Hotel", bears his image in profile in a stone above the entrance.
[[File:Head of Henry Cockburn.JPG|thumb|140px|Cockburn depicted on a building in Cockburn Street, Edinburgh]]
Cockburn had an interest in [[architectural conservation]], particularly in Edinburgh, where several important historic buildings such as [[John Knox House|John Knox's House]] and [[Stay Central Hotel|Tailors' Hall]] in the [[Cowgate]] owe their continued existence to the change in attitude towards conservation which he helped bring about. The [[Cockburn Association]] (Edinburgh Civic Trust), founded in 1875, was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Progressive up to a point |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/progressive-up-to-a-point/ |website=The Spectator |access-date=11 April 2025 |date=28 January 2006}}</ref>

Cockburn was played by [[Russell Hunter]] in ''Cocky'', a one-man play which was effectively a dramatisation of his memoirs, broadcast on BBC Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Cairney |first1=John |title=A History Of Solo Theatre |date=May 1988 |page=80 |url=https://theses.gla.ac.uk/76820/1/10970838.pdf |publisher=University of Glasgow}}</ref> It ended with his closing speech to the jury in the Burke and Hare trial.