Henry Cockburn (consul)
Henry Cockburn CB (2 March 1859 – 1927) was a British diplomat.
Family
Cockburn was born in Calcutta in 1859. He was a son of Francis Jeffrey Cockburn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 8 January 1825 – Brentford, London, 10 July 1893), a Judge in India and with the Bengal Civil Service, and wife (Calcutta or Westbury, Tasmania, 25 January 1855) Elizabeth Anne (Eliza Ann) Pitcairn (Hobart, Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap. Hobart, Tasmania, 7 November 1831 – Wycombe, Oxfordshire, 1923), paternal grandson of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn and wife Elizabeth Macdowall and maternal grandson of Robert Pitcairn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 17 July 1802 – Hobart, Tasmania, 1868) (son of David Pitcairn and Mary Henderson) and wife (m. Hobart, Tasmania, 30 September 1830) Dorothy/Dorothea Jessy Dumas.
Claud Cockburn, the journalist, was his son and the journalists Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are his grandsons.
Biography
Cockburn served in China for 25 years from 1880, as British Consul-General to Peking and Vice-Consul in Chungking, China. In late 1901 Cockburn was appointed to assist Sir James Lyle Mackay, who had been appointed His Majesty´s Special Commissioner to conduct negotiations with representatives of China, The negotiations resulted in the Sino-British "Mackay Treaty," which anticipated the abolition of extraterritoriality in China.
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Henry Cockburn (bishop)
Henry Cockburn (died 1476) was a 15th-century Scottish prelate. Between 1461 and 1476, he was the Bishop of Ross.
On 23 March 1461 he received papal provision to the bishopric of Ross vacant by, presumably, the death of Thomas de Tulloch. He was consecrated sometime between 19 October 1463, when his name occurred in a Dunfermline Abbey document as bishop "elect and confirmed", and 16 August 1464, when he witnessed a royal charter as consecrated bishop.
He was at Arbroath Abbey when Richard Guthrie was elected Abbot of Arbroath on 3 November 1470. Bishop Cockburn was sent as part of an embassy to the Kingdom of England in 1473. He was in attendance at the Edinburgh parliament of 15 July 1476, and witnessed a royal charter on 22 July.
The episcopal see of Ross was vacant by 20 August, suggesting that Bishop Cockburn had died at some stage between 22 July or 20 August and although resignation or demotion is a possibility, there is no evidence pointing to such a highly unusual and notable occurrence.
Henry Cockburn (footballer)
Henry Cockburn (14 September 1921 – 2 February 2004) was an English professional footballer, who played league football for Manchester United, Bury and Peterborough United. He represented England at international level, playing 13 times for his country. He also played once for the England B team.
Born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Cockburn attended Stamford High School and began his football career as a forward with Goslings United in the early 1940s. He joined Manchester United as a junior in 1943, turning professional in August 1944. However, because of the Second World War, he had to wait until 1946 for his league debut, by which time he had been converted into a wing half. He also made his England debut against Northern Ireland that year.
With United, Cockburn won the 1948 FA Cup and the 1952 league title. He left United in October 1954, joining Bury where he ended his league career after two seasons. He subsequently played for Peterborough United, Corby Town and Sankey's.
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