Desmond Cochrane
Sir Desmond Oriel Alistair George Weston Cochrane, 3rd Baronet (22 October 1918 – 12 March 1979), was an officer in the British Army and Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for Syria and Lebanon.
Life and career
[edit]He was the son of Sir Ernest Cecil Cochrane, 2nd Baronet, and Elsa Dorothea Marie Schumacher. He was educated at Eton College.
During the Second World War, he was a Major in the Lancashire Fusiliers in the British Army, stationed in the Middle East. Following the cessation of hostilities, he married Yvonne Sursock, only child of a Lebanese aristocrat, Alfred Bey Sursock, in 1946.
His elder brother, Ernest Henry Cochrane, MC, had died on active service as a Major in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Austria in 1945. Desmond thus succeeded his father to the Cochrane baronetcy on 6 March 1952.
He was the Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for the Republics of Syria and Lebanon, and Controller of Beirut Race Course.
References
[edit]- Hankinson, C. F. J. (ed.), Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1954, Odhams Press, 1954
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081121004154/http://www.irishlebanese.com/page28.html In Memoriam Sir Desmond Cochrane 1918-1979
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