Basil Cochrane (22 April 1753 – 12 or 14 August 1826 in Paris, France[1][2]) was a Scottish civil servant, businessman, inventor, and wealthy nabob of early-19th-century England.
^The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 96, part 2 (Sept. 1826), p. 270 Gentleman's says 12 August, Blackwood's 14 August