After an adventurous naval career in the Napoleonic wars he was caught up in financial scandal and dismissed; he secured the independence of Chile and Peru (1819-22) but was less successful as admiral of the Greek navy (1827-28); he was MP (1806, expelled 1814) and succeeded to the earldom in 1831.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Cochrane, tenth earl of Dundonald:

Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 3 February 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 25 November 1809 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [July] 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 4 July 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 25 July 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Robert Southey to John Rickman, 11 December 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830)

Count Porro to Cyrus Redding, [1826?] in Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858)

Sir Charles James Napier to Edward John Trelawny, 26 May 1826 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858)

Sir Charles James Napier to Edward John Trelawny, 1 August 1826 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858)