Background
Henry Cockburn was born in Edinburgh on October 26, 1779. His father, a keen Tory, was a baron of the Scottish court of exchequer, and his mother was connected by marriage with Lord Melville.
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Henry Cockburn was born in Edinburgh on October 26, 1779. His father, a keen Tory, was a baron of the Scottish court of exchequer, and his mother was connected by marriage with Lord Melville.
Henry Cockburn was educated at the high school and the university cf Edinburgh; and he was a member of the famous Speculative Society, to which Sir Walter Scott, Brougham and Jeffrey belonged.
On the accession of Earl Grey's ministry in 1830 Henry Cockburn became solicitor-general for Scotland.
In 1834 he was raised to the bench, and on taking his seat as a judge in the court of session he - adopted the title of Lord Cockburn.
The extent of his literary ability only became known after he had passed his seventieth year, on the publication of his biography of Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856.
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Cockburn married Elizabeth Macdowall.