Cockburn

Cockburn, SIR ALEXANDER, judge, was born 24th December 1802, studied at Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1829, and soon became distinguished as a pleader before parliamentary com- mittees. In 1847 he became member of parliament for Southampton in the Liberal interest, became Solicitor-general and was knighted in 1850, was made Chief-justice of the Common Pleas in 1856, and Lord Chief-justice in 1859. He was prosecutor in the Palmer case: and among the many famous trials over which he presided were the Wainwright case and Tichborne case. He represented Britain at the Geneva arbitration in the Alabama case. He died 20th November 1880.