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BQRKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 109 Jane Trimmer, and d. 23rd April, 1871, when he was s. by his son, Sir Alexander Cockburn-Campbeli,, who was h. 1843, and d. unm. Gth September, 1871, when lie was s. bv his brother. Sir Thomas Cockbpen-Campbell, present bart. ^rras— Q.uarterly ; Ist and 4th gra'id quarters, quiirterlj, 1st and 4th, gyronny of eight, or and sa.; 2nd, arg., a galley, sails furled, oars in action sa ; 3rd, or, a fesse, ehequy az. and arg. over all, a chief, arg., charged with a rock, ppr., subscribed Gibral- tar, between two medals for Seringapatam and Tiilavera, for Campbell ; 2nd and 3rd, grand quarters, quarterly', 1st and 4th, arg., an ostrich feather ensign ed with an imperial crown, ppr., between three cocks, two and one, gu. ; 2nd and 3rd, gu., six mascles, three, two, and one or, for Cockbuen. Crest — A dexter hand holding a scymitar, ppr. ; over it the motto, "Without fear." Motto below the shield " Forward." Residence — Albany, King George's Sound, Western Australia. dTamily of Cocfeburn. Petrits de Cockburn witnessed a dona- tion to the monastery of Soltra, co. Berwick, a. D. 1230; his ancestors possessed the lands of Cockburn in that co. as far back as Scottish history extends ; the adjoining estate of Langton came by the marriage of Alexander de Cockburn with Mary, daughter of De Vetereponte, Baron of Langton, killed at Bannockburn, and remained the seat of the principal family for nearly 500 years. The latest offshoot from the baronial house of Langton was that of Selburnrigg, founded by a younger son, who inherited that estate in Lammermoor from his father, the Baron of Langton, about the end of the 15th century ; it descended to James Cockburn, of Selburnrigg, whose loyalty to King James VII resulted in his being obliged to take refuge abroad, his lands, after the troubles of 1688. were added to the estate of Sir Archibald Cockburn, Bart, of Langton. He was father of John Cockbhen, d. at Langton, 1712, leaving a son, David CocKsrHN, resident at Langton, the seat of his kinsman. Sir James Cockburn, Bart., d. 1763, having issue by his wife, Mary Whitelaw, of a family anciently of that ilk, I. Thomas. II. David. I. Mary, m. her kinsman, Thomas Hood, grandson of James Hood, of Hoods- land,* who, in 1648, sold that place,

  • James Hwde, m. his kinswoman, Mar-

garet Edzeare or Edgar, his grandfather, K. Hwde, who possessed Hv/deslund, was on 23rd September, 1561, dilaitit along with his father-in-law, John Edzeare, of Wedderlie, Richard, Oliver, James, and George Edzeare, " lor invading with jakes, swordis, steel bonettis, culveryngis," vtc, the lands of David spelled in records, temp. James V, Hwdesland, the residence of the family for generations. The son and heir, Thomas Cockburn, of Rowchester, co. Berwick, b. 1723 ; m. Agnes, daughter of John Scntt, of Belford, co. Roxburgh, grand- son of Sir Jolin Scott, of Ancrum, Bart., and in right of his mother, Margaret, sister of the last Lord Rutherford, of Rutherford, heir to that dignity (see Burke's Extinct and Dor- mant Peerages) . By lier he had issue, I. John, of Rowchester, in. Jane Ross, heiress of Sliandwiok, co. Ross, repre- sentative of the ancient Earls of Ross, and by the entail assumed that sur- name. By her he had issue, 1. Tliomas. captain in the army, killed at the siege of Badajos. 2. Charles, d. sp. 1839. 1. Christiana, d. vnm. 1872. Mr. Cockburn-Ross, D.L. and J.P. for (he COS. of Berwick and Ross, d. 1827, and was s. by his second son, Charles, who dying without issue, the line of Shandwick became extinct. His nephew, John, who .s. to his cousin's estate of Stoneridge, assumed the sur- name of his mother's family, being paternally also i-epresentative of the Cockburns of Selburnrigg. He d. 1878. II. Thomas, m. Henrietta Colebrook, and had Thomas, d. .<:.p., and Agnes Mary, m. 13tli November, 1815, Henry Staf- ford Northcote, Esq., M.P., their eldest son was Stafford Henry, first Earl of Iddesleigh (see Burke's Peerage) . III. Alexander, in. Olympia, daughter of Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart., and had a son, Sir Alexander Thomas Cockburn-Campbell, Bart. I. Agnes, m. her cousin-german, Thomas Hood, of Hardacres, co. Berwick, J. P., and had, with other issue, Thomas, captain 75th Regiment, d. at Sancta Mauva, 1818. John Cockburn-Hood, of Stone- ridge (now Stainrigg), co. Ber- wick, J.P. and D.L., b. 8th July, 1795, m. first, 1818, Janet Anne, second daughter of Alexander Low, Esq. of Leadnurquhart, co. Fife, by his wife, Anne, second daughter of George Thomson, Esq. of Nuthill and Falkland, and by lier (who d. in 1836) had issue, " 1. Thomas Hood, b. 1820, ap- pointed to the first Upper Houses of Legislature in the Colonies of Kew South Wales and Queensland, m. first, Spottiswoode of that ilk, but the said Laird and his coUegis were acquit by the haill assize. Wedderlie, co. Berwick, belonged to the Edgar family for 700 years.