hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
| Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
| View all matching documents... | ||||
Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:
The late Earl of Dundonald.
--A correspondent sends the following in reference to the Earl of Dundonald, whose death is announced in the late news from Europe:
He was better known as Lord Cochrane.
He was born December 2, 1775, and consequently was in the 85th year of his age at the time of his decease.
He was educated by his uncle, Sir Alexander Forester Cochrane, who, in 1814, took Washington City, the Capital of the United States, and burned the public buildings.
In February, 1814, Lord Cochrane, the subject of this article, then a member of Parliament, was accused of having spread a false report of the death of Napoleon for the purpose of affecting the price of stocks, and was condemned to a year's imprisonment and a fine of £ 1,000.
He was also excluded from Parliament and the order of the Bath.
The fine was paid by his friends; his innocence was afterwards established.
In 1818 Lord Cochrane took the command of the naval force of Chile, which he conducted with gr