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COURTENAY, WILLIAM REGINALD, 11TH EARL OF DEVON, elder son of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (qv); b. 14 Apr 1807; adm. (G) 16 Sep 1818; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Mar 1824; President, Oxford Union 1827; 1st cl. Classics 1827; BA 1828; BCL 1831; DCL 1838; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1828-30; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 22 Mar 1828, called to bar 27 Jan 1832; MP (Cons) South Devon 1841 - Feb 1849; a Poor Law Inspector 1849-50; Secretary, Poor Law Board 1850-9; succ. father as 11th Earl of Devon 19 Mar 1859; took Conservative whip in House of Lords; member, Public Schools Commission, 1862; Chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, Jul 1866 - May 1867; Privy Councillor 10 Jul 1866; President, Poor Law Board, May 1867 - Dec 1868; known in Devon as “the good earl”; Chairman, Devon QS, for fifty-two years; DL JP Devon, JP co. Limerick; Busby Trustee 11 May 1861; member governing body, Westminster School, from 1869; edited with others vol. 6 of Cases decided in the House of Lords on appeal from the Courts of Scotland, 1832-3; m. 27 Dec 1830 Lady Elizabeth Fortescue, seventh dau. of Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue; d. 18 Nov 1888. DNB.

COTTON, STAPLETON, 1ST VISCOUNT COMBERMERE, second son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 14 Nov 1773; adm. 28 Jan 1785; at school four years; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot, 26 Feb 1790; 1st Lieut., 13 Apr 1791; Capt., 6th Dragoon Guards, 28 Feb 1793; Maj., 59th Foot, 1794; Lieut. -Col., 25th Light Dragoons, 9 Mar 1794; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1800; Lieut. -Col., 16th Light Dragoons, 14 Feb 1800; served in Flanders 1793-4, at Cape Town 1795, in campaign against Tippoo Sahib 1799, and in Dublin during Emmett’s insurrection 1800; Brig. -Gen., 11 Feb 1804; Maj. -Gen., 30 Oct 1805; commanded allied cavalry during part of Peninsular War; wounded at Salamanca 1812; Lieut. -Gen., 1 Jan 1812; Col., 20th Light Dragoons, 27 Jan 1813 – Jan 1821 [check]; took part in Pyrenees Campaign, 1813-4; commanded allied cavalry in France, 1815-6; Governor of Barbados 1816-20; Col., 3rd Dragoons, 25 Jan 1821 – Sep 1828; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1822-5; Gen., 27 May 1825; Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, 9 Feb 1825 - 1 Jan 1830; captured city of Bhurtpore, 28 Jan 1826; Col., 1st Life Guards, from 16 Sep 1829; Constable of the Tower (and Lord Lieut., Tower Hamlets) from 11 Oct 1852; Field-Marshal, 2 Oct 1855; MP Newark 1806 - 17 May 1814; succ. father as 6th baronet 24 Aug 1809; KB 21 Aug 1812; created Baron Combermere 17 May 1814, with annuity of £2000 p. a. for two generations; GCB 2 Jan 1815; GCH 1817; Governor of Sheerness 25 Jan 1821 – still 1829; Privy Councillor (I) 21 Nov 1822; created Viscount Combermere 8 Feb 1827; DCL Oxford Univ. 23 Jun 1830; Privy Councillor 16 Dec 1834; KCSI 19 Aug 1861; m. 1st, 1 Jan 1801 Lady Anne Maria Pelham-Clinton, eldest dau. of Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle, Major-Gen. in the Army; m. 2nd, 22 Jun 1814 Caroline, second dau. of Capt. William Fulke Greville RN; m. 3rd, 2 Oct 1838 Mary Woolley, dau. of Thomas Gibbings MD, Gibbings Grove, co. Cork; d. 21 Feb 1865. DNB.

COTTON, RICHARD WILLIAM, second son of Henry Cotton (qv); b. 23 Jun 1829; adm. 10 Feb 1842 (Benthall's); QS 1843; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1847, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student to 1861; BA 1851; MA 1854; coxed Oxford Eight against Cambridge Dec 1849, 1852, and at Henley and Thames Regatta 1850; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Nov 1849; of Kilbree, Cappoquin, co. Waterford; [m. 1875 Catherine Power ?]; d. 27 May 1919.

COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH, only son of Capt. Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, 7th Foot, and Mary Headley Burnley, Halifax, Nova Scotia; grandson of George Cotton (qv); b. 29 Oct 1813; adm. (G) 17 Jan 1825; KS 1828; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1832, adm. pens. 11 Jun 1832, scholar 1833, matr. Mich. 1832; 8th Classic and 40th Senior Optime 1836; BA 1836; MA 1839; DD 1858 (incorp. Oxford 3 Jun 1858); Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1838, Major Fellow 1839; Assistant Master, Rugby School, 1837-52 (the “young master” of Tom Brown’s Schooldays); Headmaster, Marlborough Coll., 1852-8; ordained deacon 1 Feb 1839, priest 9 Jun 1839 (both Worcester); Bishop of Calcutta from 1858; consecrated in Westminster Abbey 13 May 1858; established schools for the education of poor European and Eurasian children; m. 26 Jun 1845 his cousin Sophia Anne, dau. of Rev. Henry Tomkinson, Reaseheath Hall, Cheshire, Vicar of Acton, Cheshire; accidentally drowned in the Ganges at Kushtia 6 Oct 1866. DNB.

COTHER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cother FRCS, surgeon, Gloucester, and Mary Eliza --- (IGI); b. 8 Nov 1812; adm. 20 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS (Capt. ) 1826; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1830, matr. 28 May 1830, Westminster Student to 1837; BA 1834; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1842; Oxford Circuit; practised as a conveyancer in Gloucester; m. 30 Apr 1850 Marion, youngest dau. of John Warburton MD; d. at Dinant, France 20 Mar 1870.

COOPER, ALLEN TREVELYAN, son of Allen Cooper (qv) and his first wife; b. 11 Jun 1825; adm. 17 Jan 1838 (Scott's); QS 1839; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1843, adm. pens. 29 May 1843, scholar 1844, matr. Mich. 1843; BA 1847; MA 1852; ordained deacon 1848, priest 1849 (both London); Chaplain to Embassy at Lisbon; Curate, Buckland, Devon, subsequently Swanscombe, Kent; m. 16 Mar 1865 Lucy Evans (IGI); d. 24 Jul 1866.

CLARKE, FREDERICK GARNETT, brother of Francis Richard Clarke (qv); b. 16 Jan 1862; adm. (G) 27 May 1875; left Aug 1880; in nitrate industry at Valparaiso, Chile; m. 1st, 14 Sep 1886 Penelope, dau. of George Petrie, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, shipowner; m. 2nd, Laura, dau. of Alberto Alibaud, Santiago, Chile.

CLAPCOTT, HENRY, son of George Bunter Clapcott, Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset, and Eliza, dau. of Rev. James Dowland DD, Whitchurch, Dorset; b. 28 Nov 1830; adm. 12 Jan 1844 (Scott's); QS 1845; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1849, adm. pens. 19 May 1849, scholar 1850, matr. Mich. 1849; BA 1853; emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, where he took up sheep farming; JP New Zealand; m. 8 Dec 1858 Mary Jane, second dau. of Maj. --- Power, 60th Foot.

CHURCHILL, CHARLES, eldest son of Charles Churchill (adm. 1717/8, qv); b. Feb 1731/2; adm. (aged 9) May 1741; KS (Capt. ) 1745; left 1748 [or 1747 ?]; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 8 Jul 1748; ordained deacon (Wells) 22 Sep 1754, priest (Rochester for London) 19 Dec 1756; Curate, South Cadbury and Sparkford, Somerset, 1754-6, and to his father at Rainham, Essex, 1756-8; Curate and Lecturer, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster, 1758-63; became involved in debt, and was in danger of imprisonment until befriended by Pierson Lloyd (qv), who induced the creditors to accept a composition; author of the poems The Rosciad and The Apology, published in 1761; by their sale he is said to have cleared no less than £2000; became an intimate friend of John Wilkes, with whom he worked on The North Briton; his poems satirised Hogarth, Bute, Sandwich, and others; his literary career, although brief, was brilliant; although he led a reckless and extravagant life, his generosity was undoubted and he remained an unwavering friend of Robert Lloyd (qv); William Cowper (qv) held him in high estimation as a poet and called him the “great Churchill” (Works of William Cowper, 1836, vi, 9-10); for an account of Byron’s visit to his grave at Dover, see Lord Broughton’s Recollections of a Long Life, i, 335; his collected works were published in two volumes, 1763-4; m. c. 1749 Martha Scott, Westminster; d. at Boulogne, 4 Nov 1764. DNB.