In 1805, Lord Cochrane entered a Royal Navy competition for a superior convoy lamp. He arrived in Dover from France on 21 February bearing news that Napoleon had been captured and killed by Cossacks. 1st Edition. In October 1806, he ran for Parliament in Honiton and won. Cochrane, Earl of, 1775–1860. Later that year, a Spanish warship disguised as a merchant ship almost captured him. In mid-1824, Cochrane sailed north with a squadron to assist the Brazilian army under General Francisco Lima e Silva in suppressing a republican rebellion in the state of Pernambuco which had begun to spread to Maranhão and other northern states. On realising what Cochrane planned, Burdett and his allies took steps to end the siege. The evidence does not support these accusations, and the problem appeared to lie in Cochrane's own suspicious and uneasy personality.[42]. Once more, however, the scheme was rejected, and Napier sailed to the Baltic, where he eventually failed to subdue Kronstadt. When set off, it provided saturation bombardment of the harbour, which would be closely followed by landings of troops. He helped organise and lead the rebel navies of Chile and Brazil during their respective successful wars of independence through the 1820s. [30][31], The question of Cochrane's innocence or guilt created much debate at the time, and it has divided historians ever since. Died Oct 31 1860'[55], Brazilian sailors pay tribute to Lord Dundonald in Westminster Abbey, 1901. He was killed during the Battle of Amiens. Cochrane was popular with the public but was unable to get along with his colleagues in the House of Commons or within the government. As a result of Cochrane's efforts, Brazil became totally de facto independent and free of any Portuguese troops. [citation needed] Cochrane wounded the French officer with a pistol shot and was himself unharmed. Sir Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, died on October 31, 1860. He had served in the Royal Navy and was sympathetic to Cochrane's cause. Once again, Cochrane suggested to the press that utilization of his unnamed innovative devices would mean that a little more than a week of fair weather in the Crimea would be enough to settle the conflict. [34] Later that year, the Tory government fell and was replaced by a Whig government in which his friend Lord Brougham was appointed Lord Chancellor. Cochrane went to Greece to support its fight for independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had deployed an army raised in Egypt to suppress the Greek rebellion. Along with the conventional fire ships, Cochrane also had sent against the French three vessels crammed with 1,500 barrels of gunpowder topped with shells and grenades. In March 1812, Britain’s prince regent, the future George IV, received from an officer in the Royal Navy a secret proposal aimed at undermining the power of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte’s military might in a manner guaranteed to revolutionize the rigid customs of warfare. On 8 August 1801, he was promoted to the rank of post-captain. In 1809, Cochrane commanded the attack by a flotilla of fire ships on Rochefort, as part of the Battle of the Basque Roads. Mildred Elizabeth Sisk, aka Axis Sally, Nazi propagandist. The author of the plan was Captain Sir Thomas, Lord Cochrane, a man whose exploits exceeded in fact what most of his progeny in naval fiction have been able to accomplish. Dagmar (Virginia Ruth Egnor) actress, model, television personality (Dagmar's Canteen, Broadway Open House). [9] He transferred to the 38-gun fifth rate HMS Thetis, also under his uncle's command. Cochrane went to assist Burdett's defence of the house. Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB, 1st Marquess do Maranhão. He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading Napoleon to nickname him Le Loup des Mers, 'The Sea Wolf'. Cochrane called Katherine "Kate," "Kitty," or "Mouse" in letters to her; she often accompanied her husband on his extended campaigns in South America and Greece. He had come dressed as a common sailor, and the Royalist mistook him for one. It was during that period of unemployment that Cochrane proposed to Prince George his unique approach for freeing the Royal Navy squadrons from their arduous blockades and for reducing the fortifications that protected the critical French ports. [27] Cochrane's defence also argued that he had given standing instructions to Butt that his Omnium shares were to be sold if the price rose by 1 per cent, and he would have made double profit if he waited until it reached its peak price. During the Crimean War, the government considered him for a command in the Baltic, but decided that there was too high a chance that Lord Dundonald would risk the fleet in a daring attack. Madeleine L'Engle, writer (A Wrinkle in Time). This argument led to Cochrane's only duel. [43] Cochrane left the service of the Chilean Navy on 29 November 1822. M'Gilchrist (aka McGilchrist), John. Cochrane made important enemies in the Admiralty during this period. Katharine Elizabeth Cochrane, d. 25 August 1869, m. John Willis Fleming. The following year on 27 May 1796, he was commissioned lieutenant after passing the examination. Less than a decade later, the sulphuric yellow clouds of mustard gas ravaged thousands in the trenches of France. Cochrane’s later raids on the Biscay Coast caused Napoleon to label him ‘le loup des mers‘ (the sea wolf), and raised his reputation among the British public to an exalted height. His epitaph, written by Sir Lyon Playfair, reads: 'Here rests in his 85th year Thomas Cochrane Tenth Earl of Dundonald of Paisley and of Ochiltree in the Peerage of Scotland Marquess of Marenham in the Empire of Brazil GCB and Admiral of the Fleet who by his confidence and genius his science and extraordinary daring inspired by his heroic exertion in the cause of freedom and his splended services alike to his own country, Greece, Brazil, Chile and Peru achieved a name illustrious throughout the world for courage, patriotism and chivalry. [9], On 23 July 1793, aged 17, Cochrane joined the navy as a midshipman, spending his first months at Sheerness in the 28-gun sixth-rate frigate HMS Hind commanded by his uncle Captain Alexander Cochrane. All this led to Peruvian independence, which O'Higgins considered indispensable to Chile's security. Cochrane was an early supporter of steamships. [17][18] By 1850, Cochrane had purchased all the land surrounding Trinidad's pitch lake in support of the endeavour. In February 1801 at Malta, Cochrane got into an argument with a French Royalist officer at a fancy dress ball. Lord Cochrane inherited his peerage following his father's death on 1 July 1831, becoming The 10th Earl of Dundonald. The first was Captain Frederick Marryat, who had served under him as a midshipman and published his first novel in 1829. When Imperieuse ran short of water, she sailed up the estuary of the Rhone to replenish. He failed in his attempt to capture the Chiloé Archipelago for Chile. He usually had little success in promoting his causes. John Mayall, singer, songwriter, musician; founder of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers band. As a proponent of steam vessels and reform in the navy, Cochrane stayed active, but he spent only three years (1849­1851) on full pay, as commander in chief of the West Indies station. The Stock Exchange established a sub-committee to investigate, and they discovered that six men had sold substantial amounts of Omnium stock during the boom in value. The fifth and current ship to bear the name, Rear Admiral of the White on 10 January 1837, Vice Admiral of the White on 9 November 1846, Vice Admiral of the Red on 3 January 1848, Lord Cochrane was first featured as a character in a novel in, Cochrane is one of the main characters in the novel, Cochrane inspired "Lord Cochrane de Chile", a 1967 collection of poems by.