Henry Cockburn (1779-1854), a leading Scottish Whig of the
nineteenth century, author of the classic Memorials of His Time, is
perhaps the least-known of Scotland's famous men. 'Small, solid and
genuine', in Carlyle's phrase, Cockburn gave himself to a variety
of pursuits. As Advocate, Court of Session judge, orator, historian
and poet, he fought for, and drafted, the Scottish Reform Bill of
1832 - with its momentous extension of the franchise - and he
played a scarcely less significant part in the Victorian contest
between Kirk and Judiciary. He broke with his father's principles,
those of a sensible strong-minded lawyer and leading Scottish Tory,
and became a 'man of sense' himself - an Edinburgh patriarch and
sage, but of romantic sensibility, who would turn away from public
commitments to take pleasure in the past and the pastoral seclusion
of the neighbouring Pentland Hills. Karl Miller's sustained study
of Cockburn, the first of its kind, was published in 1975. It makes
use of manuscript materials to present a new picture of Cockburn's
career and mental life, and presents him as one of a generation of
thinkers and artists who succeeded to the Scottish Enlightenment.
Cockburn's Millennium contains rich digressions on the outlook of
the Scottish Whigs, on the world of the Edinburgh review, and on
the Tory world-picture by which Cockburn and his friends were
confronted and which included the genius of Sir Walter Scott and
James Hogg. Cockburn is the protagonist of a work which ranges with
penetration and wit over important issues of Scottish life and
culture.
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