Archibald Cockburn
Archibald Cockburn was a Scottish judge.
He lived at Caroline Park House north of Edinburgh.
Family
Son of Archibald Cockburn of Cockpen and wife Martha Dundas, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston and wife Margaret Sinclair, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Murkle and Stevenston, 3rd Baronet, and first wife Lady Helen Lindsay, daughter of John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 1st Lord Parbroath and Hereditary Steward of St Andrews, etc., and wife Lady Margaret Hamilton.Biography
A keen Tory, he was Sheriff of Edinburgh until 1790, when he succeeded David Stuart Moncrieff as a Baron of the Exchequer.Marriage and issue
He married at Cockpen, Midlothian, on 25 December 1768 Janet Rennie/Rannie, "connected by marriage with Lord Melville", daughter of David Rennie/Rannie of Melville Castle, Edinburgh and had three daughters and six sons:- Elizabeth Cockburn second wife of Thomas Randall Davidson, grandmother of Randall Davidson
- Robert Cockburn
- Matilda Cockburn, married at The [Parish Church of St Cuthbert|St Cuthbert's], Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 13 July 1798 to Sir Dundas of Beechwood">Clan Dundas">Dundas of Beechwood, 1st Baronet Dundas, and had issue
- Margaret Cockburn
- George Cockburn
- Archibald Cockburn
- David Cockburn
- Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn
- John Cockburn, married at Borthwick, Midlothian, on 7 September 1821 to Eliza Dewar, and had two daughters and five sons:
- * Caroline Cockburn
- * Archibald David Cockburn, married at Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 21 October 1856 to his first cousin Johanna Richardson Cockburn, daughter of Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn, and wife Elizabeth Macdowall, and had one son and one daughter:
- ** John Cockburn, married to Isobel Mary..., and had one son and one daughter:
- *** Henry Archibald Cockburn
- *** Laela Armine Cockburn
- ** Elizabeth Jane Macdowall Cockburn
- * Mary Elizabeth Cockburn
- * James Graham Cockburn
- * John Cockburn
- * Henry Alexander Cockburn, General, married to Lucy Margaret Tucker
- * Alexander Cockburn Cockburn