Cecil Cochrane

Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane DCL JP (24 April 1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party politician.

[2] He was educated at Sherborne School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating MA in 1894.

In the general election of December 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member of Parliament for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916, during the First World War.

[3][7] An industrial steam locomotive was named after him and is preserved on the Tanfield Railway.

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