Desmond Cochrane
Sir Desmond Oriel Alistair George Weston Cochrane, 3rd Baronet (22 October 1918 – 12 March 1979) was an army officer and Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for Syria and Lebanon.
Life and career[]
He was the son of Sir , 2nd Baronet, and Elsa Dorothea Marie Schumacher. He was educated at Eton College.
In World War II, he was a Major in the Lancashire Fusiliers, stationed in the Middle East. Following the cessation of hostilities, he married Yvonne Sursock, only child of a Lebanese aristocrat, , in 1946.
His elder brother, Ernest Henry Cochrane MC, had died on active service as a Major in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Austria in 1945, thus he succeeded his father to the baronetcy on 6 March 1952.
He was the Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for the Republics of Syria and Lebanon, and Controller of .
References[]
- Hankinson, C. F. J. (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1954, Odhams Press, 1954
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081121004154/http://www.irishlebanese.com/page28.html In Memoriam Sir Desmond Cochrane 1918-1979
- 1918 births
- 1979 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Lancashire Fusiliers officers
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Cochrane family
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom