Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston
Adam Cockburn, Laird of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston, (1656 - 1735) was a Scottish administrator, politician and judge. He served as Commissioner for Haddington Constabulary in the parliaments of 1681-2 and 1689, and in the conventions of 1678 and 1689. He was appointed Lord Justice Clerk on 28 November 1692.
Cockburn served as a member of the Privy Council, Treasurer Depute from 1699 until the accession of Anne, Lord Justice Clerk for a second term (1705–10), and a Lord of Session from 1705.
In 1695 he was one of the 30 or so wealthy merchants and officials who sett up the "Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies" generally known simply as the Company of Scotland and being an instigator of the ruinous Darien Scheme. As he was later also a signatory to the Act of Union 1707, he is one of the small group who were fully compensated for his losses in the Darien Scheme if agreeing to a Union with England.…more
Cockburn served as a member of the Privy Council, Treasurer Depute from 1699 until the accession of Anne, Lord Justice Clerk for a second term (1705–10), and a Lord of Session from 1705.
In 1695 he was one of the 30 or so wealthy merchants and officials who sett up the "Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies" generally known simply as the Company of Scotland and being an instigator of the ruinous Darien Scheme. As he was later also a signatory to the Act of Union 1707, he is one of the small group who were fully compensated for his losses in the Darien Scheme if agreeing to a Union with England.…more
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The Darien Disaster: a Scots Colony in the New World, 1698 - 1700
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1968
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The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
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2007
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Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions
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2014
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Cramond: An Introduction to the Life of the Village and Parish throughout the Centuries
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1966
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