Thomas Cochran (Nova Scotia politician)

He was the son of Joseph Cochran. His brother William also served in the provincial assembly and edited The Nova-Scotia Magazine, printed by John Howe.[2]

From 1775 to 1785, Cochran represented Liverpool township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, serving as speaker for the provincial assembly from November 1784 to October 1785.[3] He was named to the Nova Scotia Council in June 1785 and served until his death in 1801.[4]

Thomas Cochran and his family, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)[1]

With his first wife, he was a father of:

• Margaret Cochran (c. 1762–c. 1835), who married Sir Rupert George, the Commodore for the Royal Navy's North America Station.

In 1775, he married his second wife, Augusta Jane Allan (1759–1826), a daughter of Major William Allan and Isabella (nee Maxwell) Allan. His brothers-in-law included John Allan and the Honorable Charles Hill. Together with his second wife, he was the father of several more children:[5]

• Thomas Cochran (1777–1804), who served as the third Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island[6] and later in Upper Canada where he perished in Lake Ontario in 1804.[7]
• Joseph Cochran (1779–1811)[5]
• Elizabeth Cochran (1781–1862), who married Rt. Rev. John Inglis, Bishop of Nova Scotia,[8] and son of Charles Inglis, the first Anglican bishop in North America.[5]
• Isabella Cochran (1784–1858), who married Dean Edward Bannerman Ramsay of Edinburgh, brother of Admiral Sir William Ramsay, in 1829.
• Harriet A. Cochran (1781–1862)[5]
• Lt.-Gen. William George Cochrane (1788–1858)[9]
• Georgiana Cochran (b. 1789)[5]
• Sir James Cochrane (1790–1883), the Chief Justice of Gibraltar who married Ann Theresa Elizabeth Haly, daughter of Col. William Haly, Lt. Gov. of Newfoundland.[10]
• Rupert John Cochrane (1791–1851),[11] who married Isabella Macomb Clarke.[12]

Cochran died in Halifax on 28 July 1801. Cochran and his family are buried in the Old Burying Ground in Halifax.[5]