Douglas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1902.

Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, twelfth earl of Dundonald, army officer, served in the Sudan in the campaign to relieve Gen. Gordon, though Cochrane was permanently injured by a heavy box of ammunition which fell on him while he was helping to reload a camel. Served in the South African War (1899-1902). Inventor of devices and advocate of chemical warfare using smoke. Portrayed as described in two quotations cited by the Oxford dictionary of national biography: "a tall, upright man, with an elegant figure and a handsome and very aristocratic face" and a man whose "merits would have been more apparent to his brother-officers if he had looked less like a matinée idol and been less of a favourite with the newspapers"

Bears earl's coronet, upper right

[London] : Vanity fair, May 8th 1902 ([London] : Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd., lith.)

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 34.7 x 19 cm

"A cavalry reformer". Spy. Vanity fair.

Wellcome Collection 823472i