Andrew Cockburn

Andrew Myles Cockburn (/ˈkoʊbɜːrn/ KOH-burn; born January 7, 1947) is an Irish journalist who has lived in the United States for many years.

Early life and family

Born in London in 1947, Cockburn grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His father was socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn. His mother, Patricia Evangeline Anne (née Arbuthnot), was the granddaughter of British colonial administrator Henry Arthur Blake and British politician George Arbuthnot; she had written an autobiography, Figure of Eight. Cockburn was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and Worcester College, Oxford.

Cockburn has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn (1941-2012) and Patrick Cockburn, also journalists, and two half-sisters. One sister, Sarah, was best known as the mystery writer Sarah Caudwell. The other sister, Claudia, worked on disability and married Michael Flanders, half of the well-known performance double-act: Flanders and Swann; the two children of this marriage are the journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders, his half-nieces.

Andrew Cockburn (ornithologist)

Professor Andrew Cockburn is an Australian ornithologist based at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has worked, and published extensively, on the breeding behaviour of white-winged choughs and superb fairy-wrens. In 2004 he was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal which recognizes excellence in published work on birds in the Australasian region.

References

Olsen, Penny. (2004). D.L. Serventy Medal 2004: Citation. Andrew Cockburn. Emu 104: 297-298.