CLONMELL, EARL OF. See SCOTT, JOHN (1739—1798).
Admitted 19 November, 1825.
Eldest son of Alexander Cockburn, of Hertford Street, Mayfair. He received his University education at Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in the honours lists. Called to the Bar on 6 Feb. 1829, he soon acquired distinction, especially in election petitions before committees of the Commons, and obtained the rank of Queen's Counsel in 1841. In 1847 he entered Parliament, and in 1850 proved himself an orator of high rank by his advocacy of the Don Pacifico claims. In the same year he was made Solicitor, in the following Attorney-General, in 1854 Recorder of Bristol, and in 1856 he became Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. In 1847 he was Reader at the Inn and five years later elected Treasurer. On Lord Palmerston coming into power in 1859, Lord Campbell being made Lord Chancellor, Sir Alexander Cockburn succeeded to the place of Lord Chief Justice. After his return from the Geneva Convention in 1872, where he sat as an arbiter in the Alabama claims, he was offered a peerage, but accepted the Grand Cross of the Bath. He died 20 Nov. 1880.
Sir Alexander Cockburn was an occasional contributor to periodical literature, and was the author of the following publications: The Act of 2 Will. IV. c. xlv. to Amend the Representation of the People of England and Wales, with Notes and copious Index (1832); Cases of Controverted Elections, vol. i. (1833); Questions on Election Law, arising out of the Reform Act (1834); The Corporations of England and Wales, vol. i. (1835); Charge on Martial Law to the Grand Jury at the Old Bailey in the case of the Queen v. Nelson and Brand for the Trial and Execution of Gordon in Jamaica. Edited by Fred. Cockburn. (1867); Nationality with a view to Future Legislation (1869); Charge … in the Case of the Queen v. Castro [the celebrated case of the Tichborne claimant] (1875); Our Judicial System [pamphlet] (1870).
Admitted 12 April, 1838.
Second son of James Cockle, Surgeon, of New Ormond Street. He was born 14 Jan. 1819, and called to the Bar 6 Nov. 1846. He was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland in 1863, and was knighted 29 July, 1869. But it was as a Mathematician that Mr. Cockle was chiefly celebrated. He wrote on Indian Astronomy and the Lunar Calendar, and devoted much time to the abstrusest problems of pure mathematics, contributing numerous papers to the Philosophical and other scientific Magazines. In 1854 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1870 of the London Mathematical Society, and in Queensland he was President of the Philosophical Society. He returned to England in 1879, and died at Bayswater 27 Jan. 1895. His contributions to the scientific journals were published in a volume entitled Mathematical Researches, in 1897.
Admitted 13 July, 1687.
Son and heir of Christopher Codrington of Barbadoes, where he was born. At the time of his admission he was keeping his terms at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of All Souls. In 1694 he served in the wars in Flanders with distinction, and obtained a captaincy in the Foot Guards. In 1697 he
