NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cockburn, George, Sir, 1763-1847 NRA: Cockburn, Sir George (1763-1847) Knight General DNB: Cockburn, Sir George (1763-1847), army officer and writer LBT ID: GeCockb1847 VIAF ID: 38932212 LOC ID: no89017673 | B/BAP: 1763 DIED: 1847-08-18 |
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After a long military career he published A Voyage to Cadiz and
Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta in 1810 and 1811 (1815) and
was a political supporter of Sir Robert Peel. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Sir George Cockburn: Gen. George Cockburn to Lady Morgan, 24 May 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) |