Lord Henry Cockburn

Lord Henry Cockburn (1779-1854) was an eminent Scotch judge, born in Edinburgh. He was called to the bar in 1800. He was also one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh Review. He was Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1830, and appointed a judge four years after. He was a friend and colleague of Lord Jeffrey. He wrote Jeffrey's Life, and left "Memorials of His Own Time" and "Journals". He was a man of refined tastes, shrewd common-sense, quiet humour, and a great lover of his native city and its memories. He was described by Carlyle as "a bright, cheery-voiced, hazel-eyed man; a Scotch dialect with plenty of good logic in it, and of practical sagacity; a gentleman, and perfectly in the Scotch type, perhaps the very last of that peculiar species".

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