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Cotton, Sydney John, 1792-1874
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1792-1874
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COTTON, SIR SYDNEY JOHN, second son of Henry Calveley Cotton (d. 1837, qv); b. 2 Dec 1792; adm. Jan 1805 (Lusus Alteri Westmon., iii, 52); left 1805; Cornet, 22nd Light Dragoons, 19 Apr 1810; Lieut., 13 Feb 1812; Capt., 1 Jan 1820; half-pay 25 Jul 1820; 3rd Foot (The Buffs), 2 May 1822; Maj., 41st Foot, 18 Jan 1828; 28th Foot, 25 Mar 1836; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 23 Nov 1841; Lieut. -Col., 28th Foot, 8 Jan 1843; 22nd Foot, 2 Dec 1847; Brevet Col., 20 Jun 1854; Lieut. -Col., 10th Foot, 14 Dec 1858; Maj. -Gen., 26 Oct 1858; Col., 10th Foot, 5 Feb 1863; Lieut. -Gen., 20 Apr 1866; Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 10 May 1872; KCB 24 Mar 1858; GCB 24 May 1873; served at almost every station where European troops were located in the three Indian presidencies; commanding in Peshawar Valley as 1st class Brigadier at outbreak of Indian Mutiny, and did good service on North-West Frontier; author, Nine Years on the North-West Frontier from 1854 to 1863, 1868, and other works; m. 1820 Marianne, dau. of Capt. --- Hallack, 22nd Light Dragoons [not found in Army List : was surname Hackett ? : a contemporary of his in 22nd Light Dragoons was Lieut. William Hackett]; d. 20 Feb 1874. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.