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About The Cockburn Association

The Cockburn Association was founded in 1875 to promote and encourage the care and conservation of Edinburgh’s unique architectural and landscape heritage. The Association is one of the oldest conservation, planning and architectural advocacy organisations in the world. It takes its name from Lord Cockburn (1779-1854), a renown Scottish lawyer, judge, and literary figure, who can claim to be one of Scotland’s first conservationists. His 1849 publication A Letter to the Lord Provost on the Best Ways of Spoiling the Beauty of Edinburgh provided the inspiration to establish a popular organisation and it remains as relevant today as when it was first penned. The Cockburn Association’s objectives are to promote and encourage the following objects by charitable means but not otherwise: i. the maintenance, improvement, and promotion of the amenity of the City of Edinburgh and its neighbourhoods ii. the protection, preservation and conservation of the City’s landscape and historic and architectural heritage