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	'''Henry Cockburn''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CB}} (2 March 1859 – 19 March 1927) was a British diplomat.<ref name="times">{{cite news \|title= Obituary: Mr. Henry Cockburn. \|work=[[The Times]] \|date=2 April 1927 \|page=17 }}</ref>		'''Henry Cockburn''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CB}} (2 March 1859 – 19 March 1927) was a British diplomat.<ref name="times">{{cite news \|title= Obituary: Mr. Henry Cockburn. \|work=[[The Times]] \|date=2 April 1927 \|page=17 }}</ref>
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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Cockburn served in China for 25 years from 1880,<ref name=Patrick>[[Patrick Cockburn]], ''[[CounterPunch]]'', 4 November 2013, [http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/04/how-my-grandfathers-brave-stand-for-justice-cost-him-his-career/ How My Grandfather’s Brave Stand for Justice Cost Him His Career]</ref> as [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\|British]] [[Consul-General]] to [[Beijing\|Peking]] and [[Vice-Consul]] in [[Chongqing\|Chungking]], [[Qing Dynasty\|China]].<ref name=Mosley>Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 120.</ref> In late 1901 Cockburn was appointed to assist [[James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape\|Sir James Lyle Mackay]], who had been appointed His Majesty´s Special Commissioner to conduct negotiations with representatives of China,<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27367 \|date=22 October 1901 \|page=6846 }}</ref> The negotiations resulted in the Sino-British "[[Mackay Treaty]]," which anticipated the abolition of [[extraterritoriality]] in China.		Cockburn served in China for 25 years from 1880 as [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland\|British]] [[Consul-General]] to [[Beijing\|Peking]] and [[Vice-Consul]] in [[Chongqing\|Chungking]], [[Qing Dynasty\|China]].<ref name=Mosley>Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 120.</ref> In late 1901 Cockburn was appointed to assist [[James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape\|Sir James Lyle Mackay]], who had been appointed His Majesty´s Special Commissioner to conduct negotiations with representatives of China,<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27367 \|date=22 October 1901 \|page=6846 }}</ref> The negotiations resulted in the Sino-British "[[Mackay Treaty]]," which anticipated the abolition of [[extraterritoriality]] in China.

	In 1905, Cockburn was appointed Consul-General in [[Seoul]], [[Korean Empire\|Korea]],<ref name=Mosley/> at the beginning of the Japanese occupation.<ref name=Patrick/> In 1908 Cockburn sought to protect a Korean journalist, Yang Ki-taik, who had been detained but was able to escape and seek refuge in ''[[The Korea Daily News]]'' building, which Japanese police were unable to enter due to its British ownership and a treaty with Britain. Under pressure from the Foreign Office, Cockburn eventually handed over Yang Ki-taik, but resigned in protest.<ref name=Patrick/>		In 1905, Cockburn was appointed Consul-General in [[Seoul]], [[Korean Empire\|Korea]],<ref name=Mosley/> at the beginning of the Japanese occupation.

	He was invested as a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath\|Companion]] of the [[Order of the Bath]].<ref name=Mosley/>		He was invested as a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath\|Companion]] of the [[Order of the Bath]].<ref name=Mosley/>

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'''Henry Cockburn''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} (2 March 1859 – 19 March 1927) was a British diplomat.<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Mr. Henry Cockburn. |work=[[The Times]] |date=2 April 1927 |page=17 }}</ref>

==Family==
Cockburn was born in [[Calcutta]] in 1859. He was a son of Francis Jeffrey Cockburn ([[Edinburgh]], [[Midlothian]], 8 January 1825 – [[Brentford]], [[London]], 10 July 1893<ref>England and Wales National Probate Calendar, 1893, p. 90: "Cockburn Francis Jeffrey of 2 Kent-avenue Ealing Middlesex gentleman died 10 July 1893 Probate London 25 August to Eliza Anne Cockburn widow Henry Cockburn esquire and Robert Henry Kinsey surgeon Effects £4019 16''s''. 4''d''."</ref>), a [[Judge]] in [[British Raj|India]] and with the [[Bengal Civil Service]], and wife (Calcutta or [[Westbury, Tasmania|Westbury]], [[Tasmania]], 25 January 1855) Elizabeth Anne (Eliza Ann) Pitcairn ([[Hobart, Tasmania|Hobart]], Tasmania, 23 September 1831, bap. Hobart, Tasmania, 7 November 1831 – [[Wycombe, Bucks|Wycombe]], [[Oxfordshire]], 1923). His paternal grandparents were [[Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn]], and his wife Elizabeth Macdowall,<ref name="Mosley"/> while his maternal grandparents were Robert Pitcairn (Edinburgh, Midlothian, 17 July 1802 – Hobart, Tasmania, 1868) (son of David Pitcairn and Mary Henderson) and his wife (m. Hobart, Tasmania, 30 September 1830) Dorothy/Dorothea Jessy Dumas.

[[Claud Cockburn]], the journalist, was his son and the journalists [[Alexander Cockburn]], [[Andrew Cockburn]] and [[Patrick Cockburn]] are his grandsons.

==Biography==
Cockburn served in China for 25 years from 1880,<ref name=Patrick>[[Patrick Cockburn]], ''[[CounterPunch]]'', 4 November 2013, [http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/04/how-my-grandfathers-brave-stand-for-justice-cost-him-his-career/ How My Grandfather’s Brave Stand for Justice Cost Him His Career]</ref> as [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] [[Consul-General]] to [[Beijing|Peking]] and [[Vice-Consul]] in [[Chongqing|Chungking]], [[Qing Dynasty|China]].<ref name=Mosley>Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 120.</ref> In late 1901 Cockburn was appointed to assist [[James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape|Sir James Lyle Mackay]], who had been appointed His Majesty´s Special Commissioner to conduct negotiations with representatives of China,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27367 |date=22 October 1901 |page=6846 }}</ref> The negotiations resulted in the Sino-British "[[Mackay Treaty]]," which anticipated the abolition of [[extraterritoriality]] in China.

In 1905, Cockburn was appointed Consul-General in [[Seoul]], [[Korean Empire|Korea]],<ref name=Mosley/> at the beginning of the Japanese occupation.<ref name=Patrick/> In 1908 Cockburn sought to protect a Korean journalist, Yang Ki-taik, who had been detained but was able to escape and seek refuge in ''[[The Korea Daily News]]'' building, which Japanese police were unable to enter due to its British ownership and a treaty with Britain. Under pressure from the Foreign Office, Cockburn eventually handed over Yang Ki-taik, but resigned in protest.<ref name=Patrick/>

He was invested as a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|Companion]] of the [[Order of the Bath]].<ref name=Mosley/>

==Marriage and issue==
He married at [[Totlands Bay]], [[Hampshire]], on 9 October 1899 Elizabeth Gordon Stevenson (India Office, [[Bengal]], 11 October 1862, bap. [[Moulmein]], Bengal, 5 November 1862 – ?), daughter of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] James Francis John Stevenson (bap. [[Portsmouth]], Hampshire, 8 January 1823 – at sea, 7 December 1873<ref>England and Wales National Probate Calendar, 1875, "Stevenson James Francis John 5 March. The Will of James Francis John Stevenson late a Colonel of the Madras Corps and Commissioner of Arracan British Burmah who died 7 December 1873 at Sea was proved at the Principal Registry by the Reverend Robert Augustus Gordon of 1 Hill-street Berkeley-square in the County of Middlesex Clerk one of the Executors."</ref>) (son of Robert Charles Stevenson and wife Alicia Maria Groves/Gronbe<ref>Robert Charles Stevenson m. Alicia Marion Luke 4 Apr 1816 Calcutta, Bengal, India.</ref><ref>"Grave at Calcutta – 'Sacred to the memory of Captain Robert Charles Stevenson, of H.M. 59th Regiment, who departed this life at Calcutta, on the 4th December 1826, aged 40 years, leaving a widow and five helpless children to deplore the loss of the best of husbands and fathers.'"</ref>) and wife (m. [[Kilmonivaig]], [[Inverness-shire]], 19 September 1850) and wife Louisa Cameron Ross (Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, 12 October 1829 – ?) (daughter of Ewen Ross and wife ([[Kilmallie]], [[Argyll]], 3 January 1827) Frances "Fanny" Cameron), by whom he had one daughter and one son:<ref name="Mosley"/>
* Louise Margaret Cockburn (China, 16 September 1900 – ?), married to George Raleigh Parkin, and had two daughters:
** Elizabeth Stevenson Parkin (25 December 1928), married to [[Omar Shakespear Pound]] ([[Paris]], 10 September 1926 – [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[Mercer County, New Jersey|Mercer County]], [[New Jersey]], 2 March 2010), and had issue
** Jane Parkin (between 8 February 1934 and 1935)
* [[Francis Claud Cockburn]] of [[Brook Lodge]], [[Youghal]], [[County Cork]], [[Munster]], [[Ireland]] ([[Beijing]], 12 April 1904 – 15 December 1981)

He died in [[Tring]] in 1927.<ref name="times"/><ref name="probate">''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1995''</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* https://web.archive.org/web/20121103011435/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/celeb/wilde.htm

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