Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet

Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet QC (born September 24, 1802 in Alzen , Transylvania , † November 20, 1880 in Mayfair ) was an English lawyer, politician and judge. He was known as a womanizer and a salon lion.

Life

Cockburn was born in Alzen , now Altana, the son of a British diplomat Alexander Cockburn and his wife Yolande, daughter of of Saint-Domingue originating de Vicomte Vignier .

He studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and received a Bachelor of Laws degree . In 1825 he was inducted into the Middle Temple , one of the four English bar associations; In 1841 he became crown attorney . In 1847 he was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party . From 1851 to February 1852 and again from December 1852 to 1856 he was Attorney General . In 1859 he was named Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench . This office was raised to Lord Chief Justice of England in 1875, making him the first Lord Chief Justice.

He held this office until his death in 1880. He died of angina pectoris at his home on Hertford Street in London.

In 1958 he had inherited the title Baronet , of Langton in the County of Berwick , from his uncle Sir William Cockburn, 11th Baronet (1853-1858) , which had been created on November 22, 1627 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia for an ancestor . Since Cockburn had no legitimate children, the title has been suspended since his death. On February 12, 1873, he was accepted as Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath .

Web links

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• Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, of Langton, 12th Bt. At ThePeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1851 Census for England - Barrister, aged 47, of Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, Sussex, with the mother (Louisa Hannah Godfrey née Dalley) and sister (Caroline Louisa Matilda Godfrey) of his (ex -?) Partner Louisa Ann Elizabeth Dalley Godfrey - HO107 / 1642 f.115. P. 18
2. ↑ 1861 Census for England - Lord Chief Justice, aged 58, visiting Chute Lodge, Wiltshire born Altana, with children: Louisa C. Cockburn aged 22 born Stratford, Essex; Alexander Cockburn aged 15 born Sydenham, Surrey - RG9 / 716 f.19 p. 3
3. ↑ Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 6 : Châtelet - Constantine . London 1910, p. 623 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).