Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, twelfth baronet

(1802-1880)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cockburn, Alexander James Edmund, Sir, 1802-1880 NRA: Cockburn Sir Alexander James Edmund (1802-1880) 12th Baronet Lord Chief Justice DNB: Cockburn, Sir Alexander James Edmund, twelfth baronet (1802–1880), judge LBT ID: AlCockb1880 VIAF ID: 64932252 LOC ID: n81147033	B/BAP: 1802-12-24 DIED: 1880-11-20
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Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple, he was MP for Southampton (1847) and lord chief justice for England (1859).
REFERENCES TO Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, twelfth baronet: John Whishaw to Charles and Henry Romilly, 27 July 1833 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XII: 1833-35 Found 1: ¶ n1 Lovelace, Ralph Milbanke, Earl of, 1839-1906, Astarte: a Fragment of Truth concerning George Gordon Byron, sixth Lord Byron (London: Christophers, 1921) VII. Informers and Defamers Found 2: ¶ 25 ¶ n2