Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane

Owner of Good Hope estate in Trinidad, the compensation for the enslaved people on which was paid to mortgagees after Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane's death (in Paris), despite the effort of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane (q.v.) to claim the money.

1. Born Alexander Forrest Cochrane, son of the 8th Earl of Dundonald and Jean Stuart. Naval career, MP for Stirling Burghs 1802-1806 (absent on service for three of these years). His path to slave-ownership in Trinidad is not yet clear, although he did serve as commander-in-chief in the Leewards after Trafalgar and as governor of Guadeloupe after its capture in 1810.

T71/894 Trinidad no. 1632; Entry by R. G. Thorne in History of Parliament online, accessed 17/02/2016.

1. ODNB online, Stephen Howarth, 'Cochrane, Sir Alexander Inglis (1758-1832), naval officer and politician'.