[To the Editor of Tull SPECTATOR.] SI11,—Referring to the letter
in your issue of May 22nd front Mr. Alec Craig, wherein mention is made of the Cockburn Judgement of 1868," and further on of Lord Cockburn," n:ay I point out that Lord Cockburn was a very different person from Lord Chief Justice Cockburn to whom Mr. Craig intends to refer ?
The Dictionary of National Biography devotes about seven columns to the Lord Chief Justice of England, Sir Alexa.uder Cockburn, Tenth Baronet of Langton, and four columns to Henry, Lord Cockburn, a well-known Senator of the College of Justice in Edinburgh for twenty years till his death in 1854. For many reasons his name is well remembered and cherished in Scotland. South of the Tweed the two are constantly con- fused in print and I have noticed the same mistake in your columns before.
Lord Cockburn married and left a large family now repre- sented by many descendants. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn never married and his Baronetcy is extinct since his death in 1880. Although both had the same ancestry there hail been no blood relationship between them for about three hundred years.—Yours faithfully, HARRY A. Coexnunx.
l'alleney Hotel, Bath.
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