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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Baron Alexander Dundas Ross Wishard Baillie Cochrane Lamington (1816–1890)

Lamington, Alexander Dundas Ross Wishard Baillie Cochrane, Baron. An English author and politician; born in Nov. 1816; died in London, Feb. 15, 1890. He was the eldest son of Admiral Sir Thomas J. Cochrane, and one of the leaders of the Young England Party in Parliament. ‘Exeter Hall or Church Polemics’ (1841); ‘Morea,’ a poem; ‘The State of Greece’ (1847); ‘Ernest Vane,’ a novel; ‘Florence the Beautiful’ (1854); ‘Francis the First and Other Historic Studies’ (1870); ‘The Théâtre Français in the Reign of Louis XV.’ (1879), constitute his chief works.