Desmond Cochrane
Sir Desmond Oriel Alistair George Weston Cochrane, 3rd Baronet was an army officer and Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for Syria and Lebanon.Life and career
He was the son of Sir Ernest Cecil Cochrane, 2nd Baronet, and Elsa Dorothea Marie Schumacher. He was educated at Eton College.
In World War II, he was a Major in the Lancashire Fusiliers, stationed in the Middle East. Following the cessation of hostilities, he married Yvonne Sursock, only child of a Lebanese aristocrat, Alfred Bey Sursock, in 1946.
His elder brother, Ernest Henry Cochrane MC, had died on active service as a Major in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Austria in 1945, thus he succeeded his father to the baronetcy on 6 March 1952.
He was the Honorary Consul-General of Ireland for the Republics of Syria and Lebanon, and Controller of Beirut Race Course.
