Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald

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Born
Thomas Cochrane

1702
Died28 May 1737(1737-05-28) (aged 34–35)
Paisley Abbey
Spouse
Catherine Hamilton
(m. 1727;his death 1737)
Relations James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose (grandfather)
Children William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald
Parent(s) William Cochrane
Lady Grizel Graham

Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald (1702 - 28 May 1737) was a Scottish aristocrat.

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Early life

Cochrane was born in 1702. He was the second but only surviving son of William Cochrane of Kilmaronock, MP for Wigtown Burghs, and the former Lady Grizel Graham. [1]

His paternal grandparents were William Cochrane, Lord Cochrane and his wife Lady Katherine Kennedy (a daughter of John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis). His maternal grandparents were James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose and the former Lady Isabel Ker (widow of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and fifth daughter of William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton). [2]

Career

Upon the death of his unmarried cousin, William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, in 1725, he inherited the earldom of Dundonald. [1]

Personal life

In October 1727, Lord Dundonald was married to Catherine Hamilton (d. 1779), the second daughter of Lord Basil Hamilton of Baldoon (sixth son of William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and Anne Hamilton, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton) and the former Mary Dunbar (a daughter of David Dunbar the Younger of Baldoon, who was the granddaughter and heiress of Sir David Dunbar, 1st Baronet, of Baldoon). [1] Together, they were the parents of:

Lord Dundonald died at Paisley Abbey on 28 May 1737, [1] and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, William. His widow died on 13 April 1779. On the death of his unmarried heir in 1758, his line died out and the title was inherited by his son's second cousin, Thomas Cochrane. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cokayne, George Edward (1916). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Dacre to Dysart. St. Catherine Press, Limited. p. 528. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  2. Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison. p. 239. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  3. Robert J. Andrews, ed., The Journals of Jeffrey Amherst, 1757-1763 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015). vol. 2, p. 73
  4. 1 2 3 Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1858. p. 957. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  5. Sir James Balfour Paul, ed., Scots Peerage, (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), vol. III, pp. 357-358.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Dundonald
1725–1737
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