Desmond Cochrane

Sir Desmond Oriel Alistair George Weston Cochrane, 3rd Baronet (22 October 1918 – 12 March 1979) was an army officer and Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for Syria and Lebanon.

Life and career

He was the son of Sir Ernest Cecil Cochrane, 2nd Baronet, and Elsa Dorothea Marie Schumacher. He was educated at Eton College.

In World War II, he was a Major in the Lancashire Fusiliers, 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, thus he succeeded his father to the 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

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

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ernest Cecil Cochrane	Baronet (of Woodbrook, Cavan) 1952-1979	Succeeded by Henry Marc Sursock Cochrane

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