24 Jun 1859 – 1 Nov 1875
1 Nov 1875 – 20 Nov 1880

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A Scottish jurist and politician who served as the Lord Chief Justice for 21 years. A notorious womaniser and socialite, he heard some of the leading causes célèbres of the nineteenth century.

He was knighted in 1850 and became 12th Baronet from 1858 but Queen Victoria refused to make him a peer in 1864 as "this peerage has been more than once previously refused upon the ground of the notoriously bad moral character of the Chief Justice"

It was felt by one judicial colleague that Cockburn's temper was so short that he seemed mentally unbalanced. Note also that he died (of angina pectoris) only a few months after hearing this case, and had continued working up until his death despite three heart attacks and warnings from his doctor. A combination of bad temper and terminal ill-health is ideally conducive to sensible and balanced judicial decisions, of course.