William Cochrane (MP)

William Cochrane (after 1659 – August 1717) of Kilmaronock, Dunbarton was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland between 1689 and 1707 and as a Tory in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1713.

[3] Cochrane represented Renfrew in the Convention of Estates in 1689 and as a burgh commissioner in the Parliament of Scotland from 1689 to 1695.

At the 1710 British general election he was returned unopposed for Wigtown and was appointed joint Keeper of the Signet in 1711.

[3] He married Lady Grizel Graham, daughter of James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose and the Lady Isabel Ker (widow of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and fifth daughter of William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton).

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