Dame Anne Annette Minna Cochrane DCVO DStJ (6 March 1855 – 6 January 1943)[1] was a British courtier.[2]

Early life

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Cochrane was born in Portsmouth, Portsea Island, Hampshire, into the Scottish Cochrane family, a noble branch of Clan Cochrane. She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane (grandson of the Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald), and Rosetta Wheeler-Cuffe (daughter of Sir Jonah Wheeler-Cuffe, 1st Baronet).[3]

Career

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She was invested as a Dame of Grace, Order of St John, and served as Lady-in-Waiting to HRH Princess Beatrice.[2] She was invested as a Dame Commander, Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) in the 1938 New Year Honours.[4]

She had several siblings and half-siblings, including a younger brother, Thomas Belhaven Henry Cochrane (1856–1925) and half-brother Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington (1816–1890).[3][1]

Death

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Cochrane died in Bournemouth, Dorset, England on 6 January 1943, unmarried, at the age of 87.[2]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1858). The Peerage of the British Empire. p. 201.
  2. ^ a b c "Dame A. A. M. Cochrane". The Times. London. 7 January 1943. p. 7.
  3. ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 1225. ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9.
  4. ^ "No. 34469". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1937. p. 7.