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. | |
REFERENCES TO Sir George Cockburn: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 28 October 1815 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 3 Duchess of Devonshire to Lady Morgan, 22 March 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 1 Duchess of Devonshire to Lady Morgan, 31 May 1823 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.;
with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XVII. 1820-1824 Found 1:
¶ 22 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XI 1826 Found 1:
¶ 12 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1:
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