Basil Cochrane, Governor of the Isle of Man in the 1750s and a signatory of the lordship's accounts.

He appears as an auditor and signatory on the Island's revenue abstracts through the middle of the century, regularly alongside John Quayle in the annual accounts from 1744 to 1758, and his name stands with John Quayle's and Daniel Mylrea's at the foot of Acts promulgated at Tynwald.

His own letters to the Duke of Atholl survive and show the ordinary business of the office. Writing from Castletown on 6 September 1751 he sent the Duke the commission for the General Sumner, reported that his Grace's orders would be obeyed, and turned to the weather: they had had very bad weather of late which had done a great deal of damage to the harvest, and the herring fishing, which had promised greatly about ten days before, was at present at a stand. Another of his letters of that year deals with the altering of the style, the change from the old reckoning that began the year on 25 March to the new.