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.
Baillie-Cochrane as caricatured by James Tissot in Vanity Fair, December 1871
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
edit- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "Cochrane (Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie), Alexander Dundas Ross Wishart Baillie (CCRN836AD)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "No. 24838". The London Gazette. 27 April 1880. p. 2725.
- ^ "Annabella Lady Lamington and Frederica Countess of Scarbrough by Sir Francis Grant". Wikigallery.
- ^ Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935
Sources
edit- Blake, Robert (1966). Disraeli. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-19-832903-2. OCLC 8047.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
edit- "Archival material relating to Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington". UK National Archives.
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alexander Baillie-Cochrane
 | This biography of a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (since 1801), for a Scottish constituency is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
   | This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1810s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |