Cockburn, Patrick (2)

Cockburn, Patrick (2)

an English clergyman, husband of the noted writer Catharine Cockburn, was born about 1678, and was many years vicar of LongHorseley, Northumberland. He died in 1749. He wrote, Penitential Office (1721): — Praying for Superiors, etc. (1728, 1739): — An Inquiry into the Truth and

Certainty of the Mosaic Deluge (1750). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.