- GB-2014-WSA-05373
- Person
- 1801-1863
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.