Archibald Cochrane (politician)

Captain The Honourable Sir Archibald Douglas Cochrane, GCMG, KCSI, DSO & Bar (8 January 1885 – 16 April 1958) was a Scottish politician, naval officer, and colonial governor.

He ranked eighteenth among 62 successful candidates in examinations for entry to the Royal Navy training ship HMS Britannia intake term of September 1899, with 2374 marks,[1] and joined as a naval cadet on the battleship HMS Mars in January 1901.

During the First World War he was mentioned in dispatches three times, and awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Bar.

He was Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for East Fife from 1924 until he lost the seat at the 1929 General Election.

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