Robert Cockburn

(1781-1844)

LBT ID: RoCockb1844	B/BAP: 1781 DIED: 1844
SOURCES: Scottish Notes and Queries (November 1897) 66
Brother of the Scottish jurist Henry, Lord Cockburn; he was the Edinburgh wine merchant who married Byron's childhood love, Mary Duff.
REFERENCES TO Robert Cockburn: Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: to 1806 Found 1: ¶ 36 “[Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron]” in Literary Gazette (16 January 1830) 33-38 Found 1: ¶ 24 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 26 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1825 Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 23