Cecil Cochrane

Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane DCL JP (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for South Shields in 1916, resigning in 1918.[1]

Cochrane was born in Sedgehill, Northumberland, the son of civil engineer William Cochrane and his wife, Eliza Collis.[2] He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA in 1894. In 1905, he married Frances Sibyl Potter, the youngest daughter of Colonel Addison Potter CB, of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.

In the general election of December 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member of Parliament for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916, during the First World War.[3]

He was the chairman of Armstrong College council and the honorary treasurer of the Durham College of Medicine from 1908 to 1926; the two institutions later merged to become Newcastle University.[4] In 1920 he donated a sports ground in Heaton for the use of students at the colleges, which was later named Cochrane Park,[5] and in 1924 he funded the construction of a students' union building.[6]

He was knighted in 1933.[1]

He died in 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne, aged 92.[3][7]

A steam train is named after him and is kept on the Tanfield Railway.

References
  1. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2745.
  2. 1871 England Census
  3. ‘COCHRANE, Sir Cecil Algernon’, in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008), online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 7 December 2010
  4. Bettenson, EM (1971). University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: A Historical Introduction, 1834-1971. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle University. p. 50. ISBN 978-0900565281.
  5. University of Durham Calendar for the Year 1936-1937. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid & Co. 1936. p. 614.
  6. Weatherall, Nicola (3 October 2011). "Newcastle University students set to benefit from building revamp". The Journal. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  7. "Obituary: Sir Cecil Cochrane". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 23 September 1960.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Russell Rea		 Member of Parliament for South Shields
1916 – 1918		 Succeeded by
Joseph Havelock Wilson


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