COTTON (alias ROGERS), THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS Oct 1553 (Acts of Chapter); left Nov 1553.
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.
COTTON, GEORGE, brother of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Bart. (qv); b.; at school under Markham; a boarder at Mrs Morell’s, where he occupied the same bedroom as Jeremy Bentham (qv), who recounts that after his admission to College Cotton “became an occasional visitor, sometimes for days together at the boarding house, where he had formerly lived, and resumed his former situation of bedfellow to (William) Mitford” (qv) (Bentham, Works, x, 28); Min. Can. (aged 12) 1756; KS 1757; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. 1761, adm. pens. 21 May 1761, scholar 30 Apr 1762, matr. Easter 1761; BA 1765; MA 1768; LLD 1787; ordained; Rector of Stoke on Tern, Shropshire 1773 - still 1797; Dean of Chester from 10 Feb 1787; Rector of Davenham, Cheshire, 21 Mar 1787-97; Rector of Dodleston, Cheshire, from 28 Jan 1797; m. 1771 Katherine Maria, eldest dau. of James Tomkinson, Dorfold Hall, Cheshire; d. 10 Nov [or Dec ?] 1805.
COTTON, HENRY, son of Rev. William Cotton, Vicar of Chicheley, Bucks.; b. 31 Mar 1790; adm.; in school list May 1803; KS 1803; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1807, matr. 12 May 1807, Westminster Student; 1st cl. Classics 1810; BA 1811; MA 1813; DCL 1820; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1832; Sub-Librarian, Bodleian Library, 1814-22; ordained; Vicar of Cassington, Oxford, 6 Feb 1818-23; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev. Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, 1823; Prebendary of Cashel 1 Oct 1823 - Jun 1824, Archdeacon of Cashel 19 Jun 1824-50; Treasurer, Christ Church, Dublin, 12 Jun 1832; Dean of Lismore 16 Dec 1834 - Oct 1849; author, Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae, 1845-78, and other works; m. 29 May 1818 Mary Vaughan, dau. of Most Rev. Richard Laurence DCL, Archbishop of Cashel; d. 3 Dec 1879. DNB.
COTTON, JOHN; b.; adm.; QS in 1575 (Chapter Muniments 25122).
COTTON, MORTEN HENRY, son of Henry Morten Cotton, London, solicitor, and Anne A. --- (1881 Census); b. 2 Mar 1862; adm. (G) 23 Jan 1873; left Dec 1877; Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1880, matr. Mich. 1880; BA 1884; MA 1892; adm. solicitor Jul 1888; practised in Clifford’s Inn; one of the original members of the “Footlights” Dramatic Club; d. 10 Nov 1907.
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, SIR ROBERT SALUSBURY, BART. , eldest son of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton, Bart. , MP, and Elizabeth Abigail, younger sister of William Cotton (adm. 1733/4, qv); b. ; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1749/50 (as Robert Cotton) (Morel's); in school list 1754; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 11 May 1756; succ. father as 5th baronet 14 Aug 1775; MP Cheshire 1 Mar 1780-96; Maj. , Cheshire Militia 15 Apr 1771; FRS 24 Nov 1774; m. 1767 Frances, dau. of Col. James Russell Stapleton, Bodrhyddan, Flintshire; d. 24 Aug 1809, aged 70.
COTTON, SIR ST. VINCENT, BART., elder son of Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. (qv); b. 6 Oct 1801; adm. 29 Mar 1815 (Packharness'); left 3 Dec 1817; succ. father as 6th baronet 23 Feb 1812; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 3 Feb 1820; Cornet, 10th Light Dragoons (Hussars), 13 May 1826; Lieut., 13 Dec 1827; retd. on half-pay 19 Nov 1830; DL JP Cambridgeshire; a well-known sportsman in the hunting, shooting, racing, gaming, and puglistic world; played cricket for the Gentlemen against the Players 1832, 1835; gambled away his estates, and for many years made a living by driving The Age stagecoach on the London and Brighton road; m. a few days before his death Hepzibah Dimmick; d. 25 Jan 1863. DNB.
COTTON, WILLIAM, son of Philip Cotton, Drayton, Shropshire, and his first wife Beatrice --- (IGI); bapt. Mucklestone, Staffs. 17 Aug 1689; adm.; QS 1706; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1710, adm. pens. 8 Jun 1710, aged 18, scholar 14 Apr 1711; BA 1713/4; MA 1717; of Salter’s Hall, Shropshire; m. 26 Oct 1719 (IGI) Catherine Holbrooke; d. 1734.