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 Death Announcements 1845-1854
| Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Cockburn | | | First names | George | | | Rank / occupation | Admiral & MP & Baronet |  | Unit | Royal Navy | | | Death date | 19 Aug 1853 | | | Place of death | Leamington Spa  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Oct 1853 | | | Page number | 406 | | | Detail | [Pages 406-410. In his 81st year, the 8th Baronet. Born London 22 April 1772, 2nd son of Sir James Cockburn, the 6th Baronet, MP, by his second wife Augusta Anne, dau. of the Very Rev. Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol. Entered the navy 1781. ""In Jan. 1781 he joined the Ariel 14, Capt. Robert Moorsom, with who he sailed for the East Indies, where for several months he was very profitably employed in surveying. Returning home in 1791 with the same officer, in the Princess Royal Indiaman..."" Lieut., 1793. In July 1803 was made commander of the Phaeton 38, and after several months cruising off Havre de Grace, took Mr Merry, the British minister plenipotentiary, to the United States, ""and thence proceeded to India with the first installment of a sum of money, which it had been arranged should be paid by the American government, as a compensation for the losses sustained by the loyalists on the first establishment of American indenpendence"". Then blockaded the Isle de France, and on exchanging, 5 June 1805, into the Howe, returned to England with the Marquess of Wellesley, the late Governor General of India.] |
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