{{Short description|British courtier (1855–1943)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} '''Dame Anne Annette Minna Cochrane''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DCVO|DStJ|}} (6 March 1855 – 6 January 1943)<ref name="lodge">{{cite book|last1=Lodge|first1=Edmund|title=The Peerage of the British Empire|date=1858|page=201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bO8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA201|language=en}}</ref> was a British courtier.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title= Dame A. A. M. Cochrane|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=7 January 1943|page=7}}</ref>
==Early life== Cochrane was born in Portsmouth, Portsea Island, Hampshire, into the Scottish Cochrane family, a noble branch of Clan Cochrane. She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane (grandson of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald), and Rosetta Wheeler-Cuffe (daughter of Sir Jonah Wheeler-Cuffe, 1st Baronet).<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page=1225 |ref=Burke |isbn=978-0-9711966-2-9}}</ref>
==Career== She was invested as a Dame of Grace, Order of St John, and served as Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Beatrice.<ref name=obit/> She was invested as a Dame Commander, Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 1938 New Year Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34469 |date= 31 December 1937| page=7 |supp=y}}</ref>
She had several siblings and half-siblings, including a younger brother, Thomas Belhaven Henry Cochrane (1856–1925) and half-brother Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington (1816–1890).<ref name="burke"/><ref name="lodge"/>
==Death== Cochrane died in Bournemouth, Dorset, England on 6 January 1943, unmarried, at the age of 87.<ref name=obit/>
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