Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald was a British Army officer who served in World War I. He was also a Scottish representative peer from 1941 to 1955 and chairman of the Ang
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, Baron Cochrane, later 13th Earl of Dundonald
Earl of Dundonald
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Earl of Dundonald is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1669 for the Scottish soldier and politician William Cochrane, 1st Lord Cochrane of Dundonald, along with the subsidiary titl
Thomas Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald
…February, 1886, the son of Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald and Winifred Bamford-Hesketh (died 1924), he was educated at Eton. He succeeded to the Earldom of Dundonald and its subsidiary titles of 13th Lord Cochrane of Paseley and Ochiltrie on the death of his father, 12 April 1935. He was a representative peer for…
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB, 1st Marquess of Maranhão. The 10th Earl only inherited the title in 1831 and was known most of his life by the courtesy title "Lord (Baron) Cochrane". He was a noted naval commander and fought in the Napoleonic Wars. His exploits were the basis of such fictional characters as Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey.
Memorial to the 13th earl at Dundonald Parish Church.