Brigadier General James Kilvington Cochrane, CMG (2 July 1873 – 29 December 1948) was a senior British Army officer during the First World War.
Born in 1873, James Kilvington Cochrane was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
He was seconded to the Northern Nigeria Regiment in the West African Frontier Force, and served during the expedition against the Bida and Kontagora Emirate in 1901.
The following year he was appointed resident at Gujba, when a British garrison was established in Lower Borno.
[3] He retired from the British Army in 1920 and died in Bath, Somerset, on 29 December 1948, aged 75.