Alison Cockburn [née Rutherford]

(1713-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cockburn, Alison Rutherford, 1713-1794 NRA: Cockburn Alicia (? 1712-1793) nee Rutherford Author DNB: Cockburn [née Rutherford], Alison (1713-1794), writer and literary hostess LBT ID: AlCockb1794	B/BAP: 1713-10-08 DIED: 1794-11-22
SOURCES: DNB
Scottish poet and literary hostess; she married the advocate Patrick Cockburn in 1731 and late in life was a friend of David Hume, Henry Mackenzie, and Walter Scott.
REFERENCES TO Alison Cockburn [née Rutherford]: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter I Found 3: ¶ n1 ¶ 8 ¶ n1 Chapter II 1771-78 Found 3: ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter IV 1783-86 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter XI 1811 Found 1: ¶ 5