Early Life and Family
Cockburn was born in Ireland and grew up in County Cork, Ireland. His parents were the well-known socialist author and journalist Claud Cockburn and his third wife Patricia Byron, née Arbuthnot (who also wrote an autobiography, Figure of Eight). He was educated at Glenalmond College, Perthshire, and Trinity College, Oxford.
Cockburn married in 1981 Janet Elisabeth ("Jan") Montefiore (14 November 1948), an English Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, daughter of Rt. Rev. Hugh Montefiore, and has two children, Henry Claud Cockburn (4 January 1982) and Alexander Cockburn (1987). He has two brothers, Alexander Cockburn and Andrew Cockburn who are also journalists}, and a half-sister, mystery writer Sarah Caudwell. Journalists Laura Flanders and Stephanie Flanders are his half-nieces, daughters of his half-brother in law Michael Flanders, and actress Olivia Wilde, is his niece, daughter of his sister in law Leslie Cockburn.
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