Talk:Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn

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Family[edit]

The section on family in this article is totally disproportionate, creating imbalance in the article as a whole and adding largely non-encyclopaedic information of little great relevance to Henry Cockburn. If all biographical articles had such additions Wikipedia would become totally unreadable. I am descended from James Barrie but would never deign to add a whole family tree to show the link on Barrie's page. I really think the bulk of this paragraph (apart from his children) should be deleted as irrelevant conceit.--Stephencdickson (talk) 21:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]