Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane, MCS, CMG (3 August 1876 – 26 October 1932), was the 17th British Resident of Perak and Chief Secretary to Government of Malaya from 1929 to 1932.
[3] He was appointed as the Acting Chief Secretary to Government on 30 November 1930, when Sir William Peel was on leave.
David Crawford Cochrane and Jane Elizabeth Tomlinson and was born at Barrow on Trent Vicarage.
He was educated at Repton School where he was in the cricket XI and Merton College, Oxford where he graduated BA.
He died aged 56 later that year at St Peter's Hospital, Henrietta Street Covent Garden.