Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald (14 April 1814 – 15 January 1885) was a Scottish

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. He was son of the radical politician and sailor

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval flag officer of the Royal Navy, mercenary and Radical politician. He was a ...

. As a child he accompanied his father to Chile as a stowaway on the

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. In February 1819 the O'Higgins attempted to raid the city of

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, but was repelled by the coastal fortresses. Thomas Cochrane 11th was almost hit by a cannonball, which instead killed a sailor next to him. Cochrane joined the

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and eventually gained the rank of

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. On 31 October 1860, he succeeded his father as the 11th

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. Between 1879 and 1885, he was a Representative Peer of Scotland.

Marriage and children

Cochrane married, at the British Embassy in Paris on 1 December 1847, Louisa Harriet MacKinnon, daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon, MP, of Mackinnon. The Dowager Countess of Dundonald (as she was known after her husband's death) died 24 February 1902 in her 83rd year. They had seven children: * Lady Louisa Katherine Emma Cochrane, married

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, died 10 August 1942 (grandmother of

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). * Lady Alice Laura Sophia Cochrane, married George Onslow Newton, died 8 December 1914. * Lady Elizabeth Mary Harriet Cochrane, unmarried, died 30 March 1951. * Lady Esther Rose Georgina Cochrane. * Hon. Thomas Alexander Cochrane, born 10 April 1851, died aged 3 months. * Lt. General Sir Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald. *

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Thomas Horatio Arthur Ernest Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults (father of

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Air Chief Marshal

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