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The late Lord Lamington, 1890. 'The Right Hon. Alexander Dundas Ross Cochrane-Baillie, Baron Lamington of Lamington, in the county of Lanark, a Knight of St. Saviour of Greece, and a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, died on Feb. 15. He was born Nov. 24, 1816, the elder son of Sir Thomas John Cochrane, G.C.B., Admiral of the Fleet, by his wife, Matild Ross-Wisheart, daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Ross, Bart., of Balnagown Castle. His grandfather, the Hon. Sir Alexander Forester Inglis Cochrane, was sixth son of the eighth Earl of Dundonald. The nobleman whose death we record was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He sat in the House of Commons for nearly forty years - for Bridport 1841 to 1847, for Lanarkshire in 1857, for Honiton 1859 to 1868, and for the Isle of Wight 1870 to 1880. In the latter year he was raised to the Peerage. Lord Lamington married, Dec. 4. 1844, Annabella Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Andrew Robert Drummond of Cadlands, Hants, and leaves issue three daughters (the eldest, wife of Earl Delawarr) and one son, Charles Wallace Alexander Napier, M.P. for North St. Pancras, now second Lord Lamington, born July 31, 1860'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.