Background
A younger son of the civil engineer William Cochrane, Cochrane was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating Master of Arts in 1894.
A younger son of the civil engineer William Cochrane, Cochrane was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating Master of Arts in 1894.
Christ Church; Sherborne School.
In 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916, during the First World War. He was knighted in 1933. He died on 23 September 1960.
Also a steam train is named after him and is kept on the Tanfield Railway.
30th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected Member of Parliament for South Shields in 1916, resigning in 1918.