Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington

The Right Honourable
The Lord Lamington
"Judicious Amelioration"
Baillie-Cochrane as caricatured by James Tissot in Vanity Fair, December 1871
Member of Parliament for Bridport
In office
1841–1846
Preceded byHenry Warburton
Thomas Alexander Mitchell
Succeeded byJohn Romilly
Thomas Alexander Mitchell
Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire
In office
1857–1857
Preceded byWilliam Lockhart
Succeeded bySir Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Member of Parliament for Honiton
In office
1859–1868
Serving with Joseph Locke (1859-1860)
George Moffatt (1860–1865)
Frederick Goldsmid (1865–1866)
Julian Goldsmid (1866–1868)
Preceded byJoseph Locke and
Archibald Stuart-Wortley
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Member of Parliament for Isle of Wight
In office
1870–1880
Serving with Joseph Locke (1859-1860)
George Moffatt (1860–1865)
Frederick Goldsmid (1865–1866)
Julian Goldsmid (1866–1868)
Preceded bySir John Simeon, Bt.
Succeeded byEvelyn Ashley
Personal details
Born(1816-11-24)24 November 1816
Died15 February 1890(1890-02-15) (aged 73)
PartyConservative
Spouse
Annabella Mary Elizabeth Drummond
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(m. 1844)​
Children4
Parent
RelativesCharles Wallace Alexander Napier (son)
Alexander Cochrane (paternal grandfather)
Reginald Windsor Sackville (son-in-law)
EducationEton College
Christ Church, Oxford
Trinity College, Cambridge

Alexander Dundas Ross Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie, 1st Baron Lamington (24 November 1816 – 15 February 1890), better known as Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, was a British Conservative politician perhaps best known for his association with Young England in the early 1840s.

The son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, he succeeded to the Baillie estate at Lamington in 1833.

He was educated at Eton College, matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in June 1835,[1] then transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, in February 1836. He was President of the Cambridge Union in 1837.[2]

He entered parliament as a member for Bridport in 1841. He later sat for Lanarkshire, Honiton, and finally the Isle of Wight until 1880 when he was made a peer and went to the House of Lords as Baron Lamington, of Lamington in the County of Lanark.[3]

In 1844 he married Annabella Mary Elizabeth Drummond,[4] daughter of Andrew Drummond of Cadlands, Hampshire and a granddaughter of John Manners, 5th Duke of Rutland. Through the marriage of Annabella's sister Frederica, he was brother-in-law to the Earl of Scarborough.

They had four children. He was succeeded in his honours and lands by his only son, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier, second baron Lamington, who was appointed Governor of Queensland in 1895. A daughter Constance Mary Elizabeth Baillie-Cochrane (1846–1929) married Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, on 7 February 1867.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). "Cochrane-Baillie, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  2. ↑ "Cochrane (Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie), Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie (CCRN836AD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "No. 24838". The London Gazette. 27 April 1880. p. 2725.
  4. ↑ "Annabella Lady Lamington and Frederica Countess of Scarbrough by Sir Francis Grant". Wikigallery.
  5. ↑ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1935

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