Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Patrick Cockburn
Standard Name: Cockburn, Patrick,, d. 1753
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Cockburn | Alison Rutherford
was married in the parish church at Ormiston in East Lothian (where her husband's family owned its estate) to Patrick Cockburn
, a lawyer and later an estate manager. Cockburn herself says she... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Cockburn | Patrick Cockburn
(whose health had always been fragile) died at Musselburgh of bowel disease, leaving AC
to live as a widow for forty years. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Craig-Brown, ThomasEditor , David Douglas, 1900. 7 |
| Residence | Alison Cockburn | AC
and her husband
, who had fallen desperately ill with a bowel complaint, left their friendly landlord's house near Glasgow and travelled by carriage through the falling snow to a rented house at Musselburgh... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Alison Cockburn | Patrick Cockburn
's elder brother had sold the family estates, to pay off debts, in 1748; hence the need for Patrick to find employment. Patrick had saved the duke once before 1750, by preventing him... |
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