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Cockburn, Henry
Cockburn, Henry (1779–1854). Scottish advocate, judge, and diarist, whose Memorials of his Time (1856) remains one of the most vivid and attractive accounts of Scottish politics and Edinburgh society and culture in what Cockburn called ‘the last purely Scotch age’. A well-connected Whig who spent his whole life in Edinburgh, a successful and talented criminal advocate, Cockburn was a founder member of the Edinburgh Review. He became solicitor-general for Scotland in 1830, drafted the Scottish Reform Act, and was promoted to the Scottish bench in 1834. Cockburn's generous and unaffected prose did not make him a particularly trenchant Edinburgh reviewer or Whig pamphleteer. It did make him a diarist of near genius. His Memorials are his greatest work. His Journals which cover 1832–54 are less successful. His strongly topographical Circuit Journeys, written while he was a circuit judge, is a neglected masterpiece. In his later years he became a notable and ardent conservationist.
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JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-CockburnHenry.html JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-CockburnHenry.html |
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Cockburn, Henry
Cockburn, Henry (1779–1854). Scottish advocate, judge, and diarist, whose Memorials of his Time (1856) remains one of the most vivid accounts of Scottish politics and Edinburgh society. A well‐connected Whig who spent his whole life in Edinburgh, a successful and talented criminal advocate, Cockburn was a founder member of the Edinburgh Review. He became solicitor‐general for Scotland in 1830, drafted the Scottish Reform Act, and was promoted to the Scottish bench in 1834. His strongly topographical Circuit Journeys, written while he was a circuit judge, is a neglected masterpiece.
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JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-CockburnHenry.html JOHN CANNON. "Cockburn, Henry." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-CockburnHenry.html |
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