Cockburn
SIR ALEXANDER, an English jurist; born Dec. 24, 1802; studied at Cambridge; was called to the bar in 1829, and soon became distinguished as a pleader before Parliamentary committees. In 1847 he became member of Parliament for Southampton in the Liberal interest; became Solicitor- General and was knighted in 1850; was made Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas in 1856; and Lord Chief-Justice in 1859. He presided at the Tichborne and other famous trials. He represented Great Britain at the Geneva arbitration in the "Alabama" case. He died Nov. 20, 1880.