COCHRANE. 



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Dundonald had great inventive capacity, like his father; but, like him, too, 

 he did not have pertinacity enough to follow up and improve upon his inventions. 

 He was suspicious by nature. This was the basis of most of his quarrels. As 

 he grew older this grew into a veritable paranoia; he maintained that he had been 

 shamefully ill-treated by his son. "So loudly and openly did he complain of these 

 imaginary injuries that Cochrane [his son] was compelled to contradict his state- 

 ments by advertisements in the newspapers." The earl's autobiography is largely 

 the story of a grievance. 



FAMILY HISTOKY OF THOMAS COCHRANE, EARL DUNDONALD. 



II (FFFFFF), Alexander Blair, took the name of Cochrane. I 2 (F F F F F M), 

 Elizabeth Cochrane. 



Fraternity of F F F F F: II 1, Sir John Cochrane, a colonel in the army of Charles I. II 3. 

 Four other Cochranes were fighting men in the service of Charles I. II 5 (F F F F F), Sir Wil- 

 liam Cochrane, first Earl Dundonald. II 6 (F F F F M), Eupheme Scott. 



Fraternity of F F F F: III 1, William, Lord Cochrane. Ill 2 (F F F F), Sir John Coch- 

 rane, in 1683 was implicated in the Rye House plot and was compelled to flee to Holland; two 

 years later he returned to enter into the insurrection of Argyll, and was ordered to be hanged, 

 but his father secured his release. Ill 2 (F F F M), Margaret Strickland. 



IV 1 (F F F), William Cochrane. IV 2 (F F M), Lady Mary Bruce. 



V 3 (F F), Thomas Cochrane, eighth Earl of Dundonald (died 1778), entered the army 

 early, but retired with the rank of major. V 4 (F M), Jane Stuart (died 1808). V 5, Captain 

 James Gilchrist, of the Royal Navy. 



Fraternity of F: VI 2, Charles Cochrane (1749-1781), a colonel in the army and aide-de 

 camp to Lord Cornwallis, was killed at Yorktown in 1781. VI 3, John Cochrane, deputy com- 

 missioner to the forces in North America. VI 4, James Cochrane (1751-1823), vicar of Mans- 

 field. VI 5, Basil Cochrane (1753-1826), a civil servant of the East India Company. VI 6, 

 Sir Alexander Forrester Cochrane (1758-1832), a distinguished admiral of the blue. VI 7, Maria 

 Shaw. VI 8, George Augustus Cochrane (born 1762), a lieutenant colonel in the army. VI 9, 



