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Henry Thomas Cockburn

Born

in Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland

October 26, 1779

Died

April 26, 1854

Genre

Biography, History, Memoir

Influences

Francis Jeffrey, Walter Scott ...more

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Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn, was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and 1834.

Cockburn was educated at Edinburgh University. As member of the Speculative Society he mixed with fellow eminent Scotsmen, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Brougham and Lord Francis Jeffrey. In 1834 he took his seat as a judge in the Court of Session and the title of Lord Cockburn.

The extent of his literary ability only became known after he had passed his seventieth year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856. This was followed by his Journal, published i ...more

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	Memorials of his Time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1856 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Circuit Journeys 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1889 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters Chiefly Connected with the Affairs of Scotland: from Henry Cockburn, Solicitor-General under Earl Grey's Government, afterwards Lord Cockburn, ... T.F. Kennedy, with Other Letters from Eminen by Henry Thomas Cockburn, T.F. Kennedy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lord Cockburn: A Bicentenary Commemoration, 1779 - 1979 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lord Cockburn: The Letters by Henry Thomas Cockburn, Alan Bell (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journal of Henry Cockburn 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1874 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters Chiefly Connected With The Affairs Of Scotland, Volume 8 by Henry Thomas Cockburn (Creator), Thomas Francis Kennedy (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journal of Henry Cockburn, 1874: Being a Continuation of the Memorials of His Time 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life of Lord Jeffrey by Henry Thomas Cockburn, Francis Jeffrey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1852 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life of Lord Jeffrey, With a Selection From His Correspondence, Volume 2 by Henry Thomas Cockburn, Francis Jeffrey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1852 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The inn near the Trossachs could, perhaps, put up a dozen, or at the very most, two dozen people; but last autumn I saw about one hundred apply for admittance, and after horrid altercations, entreaties, and efforts, about fifty or sixty were compelled to huddle together all night. They were all of the upper rank, travelling mostly in private carriages, and by far the greater number strangers. But the pigs were as comfortably accommodated. I saw thre or four English gentlemen spreading their own straw on the earthen floor of an outhouse, with a sparred door, and no fire-place or furniture. And such things occur every day here, though the ground belongs to a duke, and partly to an earl.”
― Henry Thomas Cockburn, Circuit Journeys

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“I know of no part of Scotland so much and so visibly improved within thirty years as Aberdeenshire. At the beginning of that time the country between Keith and Stonehaven was little else than a hopeless region of stones and moss. There were pieces of many miles where literally there was nothing but large white stones, of from half a ton to ten tons weight, to be seen. A stranger to the character of the people would have supposed that despair would have held back their hands from even attempting to remove them. However, they began, and year after year have been going on, making dykes and drains, and filling up holes with these materials till at last they have created a country which, when the rain happens to cease and the sun shines, is really very endurable.”
― Henry Thomas Cockburn, Journal of Henry Cockburn

tags: aberdeenshire, northeast-scotland

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