The title Earl of Dundonald was created in 1669 in the Peerage of Scotland for the soldier Sir William Cochrane. Other titles held by the Earl of Dundonald are: Lord Cochrane of Dundonald (created 1647) and Lord Cochrane of Paisley and Ochiltree (1669). Both subsidiary titles are in the Peerage of Scotland. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. ...
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald (1814–1885)
Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald (1852–1935)
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald (1886–1958)
Ian Douglas Leonard Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald (1918–1986)
Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald (b. 1961)
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DUNDONALD, Earl of, a title in the peerage of Scotland, conferred in 1669, on Sir William Cochrane, of Cowdon, knight, who had distinguished himself by his loyalty, of the ancient family of Cochrane in Renfrewshire (see COCHRANE).
Lady Susan, married to the sixth earl of Strathmore, who was killed by Carnegie of Finhaven, in May 1728, without issue, and in 1745, she married, secondly, Mr.
Of great scientific attainments, Lord Dundonald was long in possession of some extraordinary submarine method for blowing up ships, and during the war in the Crimea, he offered to the British government to destroy Sebastopol in a few hours by a plan of his own, but his offer was rejected.
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