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 530 DUNDONALD He afterwards had command of the Greek navy till the end of the war (1827-28), being cr. Knight of the Saviour of Greece. He returned to England in 1829; received a "free pardon" 2 May 1832, and was in that year restored as Rear Adm. with seniority from 1830, Vice Adm. 1 84 1, Adm. of the Blue 1851, of the White 1853, and of the Red 1857; Rear Adm. of Great Britain 1854-60. He was reinstated in the order of the Bath 22, and gazetted 25 May 1847, G.C.B.; was Com. in Chief on the West Indian and North American Station 1848-51. Elder Brother of the Trinity House 1854-60. He m., secretly,(*) 8 Aug. 18 12, at Annan, co. Dumfries, and, openly, 22 June 18 18 (he as a bachelor, she as a spinster) at Speldhurst, Kent, and yet again at Edinburgh, Katherine Frances Corbett, da. of Thomas Barnes, of Romford, Essex. He d. 3 i Oct. i860, at 12 Queen's Gate, Midx., aged 84, and was bur. in Westm. Abbey.C") His widow d. 25 Jan. 1865, at Boulogne-sur-mer, in her 69th year.C) Will pr. 9 Feb. 1866. XI. i860. II. Thomas Barnes (Cochrane), Earl of Dun- DONALD, fe'c. [S.], s. and h., ^. at 13 Green Str., Hyde Park, 28 Apr., and bap.(^) 22 May 18 14, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., styled Lord Cochrane, 1831-60; Capt. i8th regt. and sometime Quarter Master (*) So secretly that it appears to have been unknown to himself when, some six years later, he swore to the allegation (21 June 181 8) to obtain a lie. for another mar- riage that he was a "Bachelor." The marriage of 1812 was, however, found good, by the House of Lords, in or shortly after 1862, chiefly on the testimony of the Countess herself, whose eloquent (if stilted) language {"such an imputation on such a man! — such a God ot a man! — a man who could have ruled the world upon the sea! " — &c.) had a great effect on Lord Brougham and others of their (legal) Lordships. There was also produced a paper, witnessed, it was said, at Annan by the valet and lady's maid of the parties (both of whom had been dead some 30 years), stating that Lord Cochrane acknowledged and received the said Miss Barnes as his " lawful wife." Why, however, these two, both being, in 18 12, inhabitants of Marylebone, did not contract a bona fide marriage (if such was intended) at Marylebone, or elsewhere in London, does not appear, for the alleged cause, i.e. that of secrecy (one of the bride- groom's uncles, Basil Cochrane, disapproving of the match), would have been equally, if not better effected thereby. (•>) Napoleon called him "Le Loup des mers." "Wilful, original, rash of temper, incontinent of speech, with a genius, not only for quarrelling with his superiors, but for proving himself right and them wrong." " Fancy to yourself a broad-built Scotchman, rather seared than conquered by age, with hairs of snowy white, and a face in which intellect still beams through traces of struggle and sorrow, and the marks of 80 years of active life. A slight stoop takes away from a height that is almost commanding, add to these a vision of good old- fashioned courtesy coloring the whole man, his gestures and speech, and you have some idea of the Earl of Dundonald in June 1855." V.G. (=) " Has the remains of beauty, and a joyous laugh which begets merriment in others." (Henry Greville's Diary, 30 Oct. 1841). V.G. C^) His baptism is entered as son of Sir Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane and "Catherine Corbet Barnes."