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	'''Montague Dundas Cockburn''' (/ˈkoʊbərn/) (31 January 1789<ref>''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''</ref> – 28 September 1869) was a [[Scotland\|Scottish]] [[coffee]] [[Plantation\|planter]], and [[district collector]] of [[Salem, Tamil Nadu\|Salem]], in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]], between 1820 and 1829. Cockburn is known as the "Father of Yercaud" for developing the resources of the [[Shevaroy Hills]],<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000917/spectrum/travel.htm \|title=Yercaud: The new hill station \|author=Tejwant Singh \|date=September 17, 2000 \|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)\|The Tribune]] \|accessdate=2008-04-01}}</ref> and for introducing the cultivation of coffee, pears and apples into most of the [[hill station]]s of Tamil Nadu, particularly in [[Yercaud]], a small hill station in [[Salem District]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html \|title=Kotagiri \|accessdate=2008-04-02 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312115705/http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html \|archivedate=2008-03-12 }}</ref>		'''Montague Dundas Cockburn''' (/ˈkoʊbərn/) (31 January 1789<ref>''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''</ref> – 28 September 1869) was a [[Scotland\|Scottish]] [[coffee]] [[Plantation\|planter]], and [[district collector]] of [[Salem, Tamil Nadu\|Salem]], in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]], between 1820 and 1829. Cockburn is known as the "Father of Yercaud" for developing the resources of the [[Shevaroy Hills]],<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000917/spectrum/travel.htm \|title=Yercaud: The new hill station \|author=Tejwant Singh \|date=September 17, 2000 \|work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)\|The Tribune]] \|accessdate=2008-04-01}}</ref> and for introducing the cultivation of coffee, pears and apples into most of the [[hill station]]s of Tamil Nadu, particularly in [[Yercaud]], a small hill station in [[Salem District]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html \|title=Kotagiri \|accessdate=2008-04-02 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312115705/http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html \|archivedate=2008-03-12 }}</ref>

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'''Montague Dundas Cockburn''' (/ˈkoʊbərn/) (31 January 1789<ref>''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''</ref> – 28 September 1869) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[coffee]] [[Plantation|planter]], and [[district collector]] of [[Salem, Tamil Nadu|Salem]], in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]], between 1820 and 1829. Cockburn is known as the "Father of Yercaud" for developing the resources of the [[Shevaroy Hills]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000917/spectrum/travel.htm |title=Yercaud: The new hill station |author=Tejwant Singh |date=September 17, 2000 |work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |accessdate=2008-04-01}}</ref> and for introducing the cultivation of coffee, pears and apples into most of the [[hill station]]s of Tamil Nadu, particularly in [[Yercaud]], a small hill station in [[Salem District]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html |title=Kotagiri |accessdate=2008-04-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312115705/http://www.hillstationsinindia.com/south-india-hill-stations/kotaqiri.html |archivedate=2008-03-12 }}</ref>
[[File:M_D_Cockburn_Grave.jpg|thumb|left|Grave in Kotagiri]]
Cockburn helped in improving the coffee plantations in Tamil Nadu. While he was collector of Salem, he visited many hill stations, like Yercaud and [[Kotagiri]], and it was when he visited Yercaud in 1820 that he introduced coffee plants from [[Arabia]]. Cockburn erected a small hut which is now known as Grange Estate. During the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]], the building was fortified to form a castle-like structure, and is an important landmark today. The first coffee estate in Kotagiri was planted by Cockburn in 1843, in [[Kanhutty]]. [[Catherine falls|Catherine Falls]], located 7 km from Kotagiri, is sometimes claimed to be named after his wife, Catherine Jane Lascelles (died 30 August 1879) although the name of St. Catherine's Falls<ref>{{cite book| url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47993514|page=7 | title=
Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis :or figures of Indian plants. Volume 5| year=1852| author=Wight, Robert }}</ref> is recorded from 1852.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/stream/InscriptionsOnTombsOrMonumentsInMadras1st1905Ed/Inscriptions%20on%20Tombs%20Or%20Monuments%20in%20Madras%201st%201905%20Ed#page/n307/mode/2up|page=285| author=Cotton, Julian James| year=1905| place=Madras| title=Inscriptions on tombs or monuments in Madras }}</ref><ref>Playne, Somerset (1914) Southern India, its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources. The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co., London. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8WNEcgMr11kC scan] page 240</ref><ref>Eagan, J.S.C (1916) The Nilgiri Guide And Directory. The S.P.C.K Press [https://archive.org/details/nilgiriguideandd031416mbp scanned book]</ref>

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