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Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane, MCS, CMG (3 August 1876 – 26 October 1932), was the 17th British Resident of Perak and Chief Secretary to Government of Malaya from 1929 to 1932.


Career

In 1899, Cochrane joined the Federated Malay Civil Service as a cadet.the Peerage.com
/ref> He was an agent for the Malaya Information Agency, and became Under Secretary to the Government in 1921 and then in 1925 political Adviser in Johore. He became the 17th British Resident in Perak in 1929. He was appointed as the Acting Chief Secretary to Government on 30 November 1930, when Sir William Peel was on leave.


Personal life

Cochrane was the fourth son of Rev. David Crawford Cochrane and Jane Elizabeth Tomlinson and was born at Barrow on Trent Vicarage. He was educated at
Repton School Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England. Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school whi ...
where he was in the cricket XI and Merton College, Oxford where he graduated BA. Cochrane married Cecile Laura Vetter (1885-1957), daughter of Carlos Vetter, on 26 July 1910 and had two children. Cochrane was the brother of Arthur Cochrane of the
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, and
Alfred Cochrane Alfred Henry John Cochrane (26 January 1865 – 14 December 1948) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1884 and 1886, and for Oxford University between 1885 and 1888. He subsequently made his name as a ...
cricketer and writer. He played cricket for the Straits Settlements cricket team in 1904 and 1905 and occasionally for the Federated Malay States cricket team from 1907 to 1913. Cochrane retired in 1932 and lived at 21 Cheyne Court Chelsea. He died aged 56 later that year at St Peter's Hospital, Henrietta Street Covent Garden.


Awards and honours

Cochrane was invested with Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1930.


Legacy

"Jalan Cochrane" in
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was named after him and consequently Cochrane Road School,
SMK Cochrane Perkasa Cochrane Perkasa High School ('' Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Cochrane Perkasa'') is a co-ed secondary school. The school is widely known as SMKCP and the students of SMK Cochrane Perkasa bear the name Cochrane Perkasan. SMKCP is famou ...
and the
Cochrane MRT station The Cochrane station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) underground station in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on the MRT Kajang Line. The station was opened on 17 July 2017 as part of the second phase operations of the line. The station is located in the ...
take their names from him.


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Perak State Council
1876 births 1932 deaths People educated at Repton School Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Straits Settlements cricketers Federated Malay States cricketers History of Perak Administrators in British Malaya Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George British people in British Malaya {{Singapore-politician-stub