Sir

Knight

A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....

 Cecil Algernon Cochrane (1869 – 23 September 1960) was a British Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

 politician. He was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for South Shields

South Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

South Shields is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

 in 1916, resigning in 1918.

A younger son of the civil engineer

Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

 William Cochrane, Cochrane was educated at Sherborne School

Sherborne School

Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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, graduating MA in 1894. In 1905 he married Frances Sibyl, a daughter of Colonel

Colonel

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 Addison Potter CB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

, of Heaton Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1910 he fought Durham for the Liberals unsuccessfully, and was briefly Member for South Shields from 1916 to 1918, having been elected at a by-election in 1916

South Shields by-election, 1916

The South Shields by-election, 1916 was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of South Shields on 18 March 1916. -Vacancy:...

, during the First World War

World War I

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.

He was knight

Knight Bachelor

The rank of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It is the most basic rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Orders of Chivalry...

ed in 1933.

He died on 23 September 1960.

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