Cockburn, Sir Alexander, Lord Chief-Justice of England from 1859; called to the bar in 1829; became Liberal member for Southampton in 1847, and Solicitor-General in 1850; was prosecutor in the Palmer case, judge in the Tichborne, and an arbitrator in the Alabama (1802‒1880).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cockatrice * Cockburn, Alison