John Hyndford Cochrane (3 July 1750 – 21 November 1801) was a wealthy merchant and author from a notable Scottish aristocratic family.
[1] From 1779 to 1783, Cochrane acted as a deputy paymaster in British North America.
[3] From 1790 to 1792, Cochrane held the contract for victualling the British fleet in India.
[5] In addition to his fellow nabob Basil, John Cochrane's siblings included Archibald (1748–1831), the eldest son and 9th Earl of Dundonald; Admiral Alexander Cochrane (1758–1832); George, a soldier and MP; and Andrew (1767–1833), an adventurer and MP who was disgraced in the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814.
[7] A portrait of Cochrane exists, by portraitist Lemuel Francis Abbott.