There are other books about Cochrane, including his own 'Autobiography of a Seaman', and biographies by David Cordingley and Donald Thomas. By the way he was never 'Mr' Cochrane. He was Lord Cochrane first (a courtesy title of his father) and after his father's death Earl of Dundonald.

He was also a very outspoken Radical MP, which didn't endear him to the establishment. He was a Admiral of four different nations, Greece, Brazil, Chile and the UK.