Cochranes Hotel and Fitness Suite
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Historical Information Our Hotel is named after Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, whose ancestral home was at the nearby Culross Abbey House. The Hotel was in fact opened by Lord Elgin who is the great,great grandson of Lord Cochrane. Indeed the Hotel logo is a combination of The Cochrane Family crest and the Naval badge of HMS Cochrane which the Hotel Buildings once formed part of.
The life of Lord Cochrane was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, and more than outshines his fictional counterparts, Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey. He made his name battling Napoleon's Navy in a series of outstanding and heroic actions, often pitching his ship against seemingly overwhelming odds. His life on land was equally dramatic. As a campaigner against corruption in the Admiralty he made himself many enemies, and was later framed in a Stock Exchange fraud. Following his imprisonment he returned to the sea and, in a series of dramatic actions again famous for their disregard of the most daunting risks, helped liberate Chile and Brazil from colonial rule. |
