Cockburn baronets
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There have been two Cockburn Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
The dates given are the dates from accession to the title, to death. Where three dates are shown, the first is a date of birth.
Baronets Cockburn of Langton, Berwick[]
- (22 November 1627 (NS) – 1628)
- (1628–1650)
- (1650–1657)
- (1657–1705)
- (15 Nov 1687-1705–1710)
- (1710–1739)
- (1739–1745 at Fontenoy) Ensign in the First Regiment of Foot Guards
- Sir James Cockburn of Langton, 8th Baronet (c.1729-1745–1804) Member of Parliament for Linlithgow Burghs
- Sir James Cockburn of Langton, 9th Baronet (21 Mar 1771-1804–1852) Governor of Bermuda
- Sir George Cockburn of Langton, 10th Baronet (1772-1852–1853) Admiral of the Fleet and First Sea Lord
- Sir William Cockburn of Langton, 11th Baronet (1853–1858) Dean of York
- Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn of Langton, 12th Baronet (1858–1880) Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
- On his death the Cockburn of Langton baronetcy became dormant.
Baronets Cockburn of Cockburn[]
- (1671–1703)
- (1704–1751)
- (1751–1780)
- (1780–1800)
- (1800–1809)
- (1809–1835)
- (1835–1858)
- (1858–1903)
- (1903–1938)
- (1867–1947)
- (1870–1949)
- (1925–2015)
- (born 1950)
The heir apparent is the current holder's elder son, Christopher Samuel Alexander Cockburn (born 1986).
Ancestors of the Cockburn baronets[]
- Sir Alexander de Cokburne, Baron of Langton, Carriden, Bolton and Skirling (c. 1310 – c. 1370)
- unknown Cockburn
- Sir Alexander de Cockburn, Baron of Carriden (born 1358). Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1389–96.
- unknown Cockburn
- , Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. Became the Heritable Usher of the White Rod of the Parliament of Scotland on 10 February 1473.
- unknown Cockburn
- unknown Cockburn
- Sir William Cockburn, Baron of Langton (died 1513 at Flodden)
- William Cockburn of that Ilk (late 15th century – 1564)
- Alexander Cockburn of that Ilk (died 1583)
- William Cockburn of that Ilk (died 1600)
- William Cockburn of that Ilk (died 1659)
- John Cockburn of that Ilk (1598 – after 1628), father of Sir James Cockburn of that Ilk, 1st Baronet
References[]
- ^ thePeerage.com
Bibliography[]
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets – Baronetcies beginning with "C" (part 3)
Categories:
- Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
- Dormant baronetcies in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
- 1627 establishments in Nova Scotia
- Cockburn family