# Cecil Cochrane

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'''Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DCL|JP}} [MP](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician. He was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament) for [South Shields](/source/South_Shields_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in 1916, resigning in 1918.<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood](/source/Burke's_Peerage)|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke  |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page= 2745 |ref=Burke }}</ref>

Cochrane was born in Sedgehill, [Northumberland](/source/Northumberland), the son of [civil engineer](/source/civil_engineer) William Cochrane and his wife, Eliza Collis.<ref>''1871 England Census''</ref> He was educated at [Sherborne School](/source/Sherborne_School) and [Christ Church, Oxford](/source/Christ_Church%2C_Oxford), graduating [MA](/source/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_Dublin)) in 1894. In 1905, he married Frances Sibyl Potter, the youngest daughter of [Colonel](/source/Colonel) Addison Potter [CB](/source/Order_of_the_Bath), of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.

In the general election of December 1910 he fought [Durham](/source/Durham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) 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](/source/1916_South_Shields_by-election), during the [First World War](/source/World_War_I).<ref name=who>‘COCHRANE, Sir Cecil Algernon’, in ''[Who Was Who](/source/Who's_Who_(UK))'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008), [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U235869, online edition] (subscription required) by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), December 2007, accessed 7 December 2010</ref>

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](/source/Newcastle_University).<ref>{{cite book |last=Bettenson |first=EM |date=1971 |title=University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: A Historical Introduction, 1834-1971 |location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne |publisher=Newcastle University |page=50 |isbn=978-0900565281}}</ref> In 1920 he donated a sports ground in [Heaton](/source/Heaton%2C_Newcastle) for the use of students at the colleges, which was later named Cochrane Park,<ref>{{cite book |title=University of Durham Calendar for the Year 1936-1937 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Calendars/1936-7/ducal1936METS.xml#page/630/mode/2up |location=Newcastle-upon-Tyne |publisher=Andrew Reid & Co |page=614 |date=1936}}</ref> and in 1924 he funded the construction of a [students' union](/source/Newcastle_University_Students'_Union) building.<ref>{{cite news |last=Weatherall |first=Nicola |date=3 October 2011 |title=Newcastle University students set to benefit from building revamp |url=http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-university-students-set-benefit-4420882 |work=[The Journal](/source/The_Journal_(Newcastle_upon_Tyne_newspaper)) |access-date=16 May 2019}}</ref>

He was [knight](/source/Knight_Bachelor)ed in 1933.<ref name="burkewwii"/>

He died in 1960 in Newcastle upon Tyne, aged 92.<ref name=who/><ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Cecil Cochrane |work=[The Times](/source/The_Times) |date=23 September 1960 }}</ref>

An industrial steam locomotive was named after him and is preserved on the [Tanfield Railway](/source/Tanfield_Railway).

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== External links ==
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