[1] Cochrane sat as Unionist Member of Parliament for North Ayrshire from 1892 to 1910.

[4][2] In 1919 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cochrane of Cults, of Crawford Priory in the County of Fife.

[5] Lord Cochrane of Cults was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for Fife.

[1] Lord Cochrane of Cults married Lady Gertrude, daughter of George Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow, in 1880.

Lord Cochrane of Cults only survived her by a month and died in January 1951, aged 93.