COCKBURN, HENRY THOMAS Scottish judge, with the style of Lord Cockburn, was born in Edinburgh on Oct. 26, 1779. His father was a baron of the Scottish court of exchequer. He was educated at the high school and the Uni versity of Edinburgh, and he was a member of the Speculative Society, to which Sir Walter Scott, Brougham and Jeffrey be longed. He entered the faculty of advocates in 1800, and attached himself, though his connections were Tory, to the Whig or Liberal party, which then offered few prospects to ambitious men. On the accession of Earl Grey's ministry in 1830 he became solicitor general for Scotland. In 1834 he was raised to the bench, and on taking his seat as a judge in the court of session he adopted the title of Lord Cockburn. Cockburn's forensic style was re markable for its clearness, pathos and simplicity; and his con versational powers were unrivalled among his contemporaries. In 1852 he published his biography of Lord Jeffrey, and the Memorials of his Time appeared posthumously in 1 856 (new ed., with introduction by his grandson, H. A. Cockburn, Iqog). He died on April 26, 1854, at his mansion of Bonaly, near Edinburgh.