William Cochran (priest)

William Cochran (1757–1833) was an Anglican priest who served as the president of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, for more than 40 years.

[1][2] Cochran entered Trinity College, Dublin, in June 1776, and despite a “low conception of his own capacity” he was elected a scholar in 1779 and took his degree in 1780.

He was also the editor of Nova Scotia Magazine and Comprehensive Review of Literature, Politics, and News, and was awarded an honorary A.M. by Columbia College in New York City in 1788.

William Cochran, D. D., Professor of Languages and of Moral Science, and Vice-President of King's College, etc., etc."

Dr. Cochran was not only Vice-President of King's College, but he was the S. P. G. missionary at Newport, and in 1809 he had also charge of Falmouth and Rawdon.