Edward Alfred Cockayne OBE FRCP (3 October 1880 – 28 November 1956) was an English physician specializing in pediatrics.
[1] In 1906, his widowed mother, 49, shocked British society when she married his 27-year-old Balliol College classmate George Gordon, Lord Haddo, heir to John Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen, who was at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and former Governor General of Canada.
[1] This is a rare multisystem disorder characterized by dwarfism, pigmentary retinopathy, impaired nervous system development, and facial abnormalities.
[5] He amassed a large collection of butterflies and moths, which in 1947 was donated to the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring, Hertfordshire.
[6] Cockayne was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1954 Birthday Honours for services to entomology.