Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th baronet
1802–80
Judge. Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1829–50. Called to the bar, 1829. Liberal MP for Southampton, 1847. Attorney-general, 1851. Chief justice of the queen’s bench, 1859. Presided over the controversial perjury trial of Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, in 1874. Knighted, 1850; succeeded his uncle as 12th baronet, 1858.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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