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.
COTTRELL, EDWARD, son of Charles Cottrell, York, and Catherine ---; bapt. St. Martin’s, Coney Street, York 13 Feb 1746/7; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1761. [Parents presumably Charles Cotterel and Catherine Preston, who m. at New Malton, Yorks., 5 May 1743 (IGI)].
COULSON, ---; b.; in school lists 1795, 1797.
COURTENAY, WILLIAM, eldest son of Henry Reginald Courtenay (adm. 1724/5, qv); b. 9 Sep 1738; adm. Jun 1748 (Porten's); KS 1752; Capt. of the School 1756; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1757, matr. 8 Jun 1757, Westminster Student 5 Jan 1758 - 8 Nov 1760, void on election to Fellowship All Souls; BA 1761; MA 1774; Fellow, All Souls Coll., 1760; adm. Middle Temple 30 Dec 1761; ordained deacon 29 May 1774, priest 24 Jun 1774 (both Winchester); Rector of Kenn, Devon, 29 Jun 1774; Rector of Little Hempston, Devon, 1777; patentee of the Subpoena Office in Court of Chancery from 26 May 1778; m. 31 Dec 1764 Anne, dau. of John Downes, Otterbury, Hampshire; d. 27 Nov 1783.
COURTHOP, SIR GEORGE, eldest son of Sir George Courthop, Kt., Whiligh, Toicehurst, Kent, and his first wife Alice, dau. of Sir George Rivers, Kt., Chafford House, Kent; bapt. 3 Jun 1616; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. in 1630, subsequently at Westminster under Osbaldeston (The Memoirs of Sir George Courthop, Camden Miscellany xi, 103, Camden Society Publications, 3rd Series, vol. xiii); University Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jun 1632, aged 16; BA 1635; travelled abroad 1636-9; a Commissioner of the Alienation Office; MP Sussex Sep 1656 - Feb 1657/8, East Grinstead Apr 1660 - Jan 1678/9; knighted 24 Apr 1661; a Gentleman Pensioner; m. 12 Jul 1643 Elizabeth, only dau. of Edward Hawes, a London merchant; d. 18 Nov 1685.
Court-Treatt, Chaplin, son of Richard Court Treatt, of Kensington, by Florence Blanche, daughter of William Edward Bartlett, of Kensington; b. Sept. 1888; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (A); left July 1908; studied art; enlisted in the Artists' Rifles 1914; joined the R. F. C. in 1915 and, served in France; severely injured in 1916; Flight-Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; afterwards on the staff in Egypt until the Armistice; acting Major May 1, 1919; African survey party; with his wife and four companions crossed Africa in motor cars, left Cape Town Sept. 23, 1924, and after surmounting innumerable obstacles reached Cairo Jan. 24, 1926 (see Cape to Cairo [1926], by Stella Court Treatt, and Elizabethan, vol. xviii, pp. 92-4); assumed the name of Court as an additional surname in lieu of a Christian name; technical director of a cinematograph studio in America 1931-41; served in Great War II as a Technical Officer, R.A.F. Photographic Dept. 1942-6; returned to America on demobilisation and operated his own studio in California; m. Dec. 9, 1913, Cecile Joyce, younger daughter of the Rev. Henry Trevor Williamson, Vicar of Bullinghope, co. Hereford; d. July 11, 1952.
Cousins, Edmund Richard John Ratcliffe, son of John Ratcliffe Cousins, of Dulwich, Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Marylebone, by Eleanor Fanny, daughter of the Rev. James Edmund Law, Rector of Little Shelford, Cambs; b. April 22, 1888; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 26, 1901 (G); K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 24, 1903; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1906, matric. Michaelmas 1906; B.A. 1910; appointed to the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1910; arrived in India Nov. 25, 1911, and served in Bengal as Assist. Magistrate and Collector; transferred to Bihar and Orissa April 1912; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector Dec. 1918; Secretary, Board of Revenue 1920-2; District Magistrate and Collector 1925-7; Commissioner, Chota Nagpur, Bihar, 1937-9; Adviser to Governor of Bihar 1939; Asst. Secretary, Ministry of Aviation 1947; Special Commissioner of Lands, Kenya, 1949; C. I. E. 1938; C. S. I. 1942; m. July 22, 1912, Henrietta Mary Colebrooke, widow of Frank Yewdall, I. C. S., and second daughter of Alexander Chalmers Marshall; d. July 16, 1955.
COUSSMAKER, GEORGE, only son of Lieut.-Col. George Kien Hayward Coussmaker, 1st Foot Guards, and Hon. Catherine Southwell, sister of Edward Southwell, 21st Baron De Clifford (qv); b. 1797; adm. 20 Apr 1808, left 1814; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 May 1814, aged 17; MP Kinsale from 1818; d. unm. 23 May 1821.
COVENTRY, GEORGE WILLIAM, 7TH EARL OF COVENTRY, only son of George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry, Lord Lieut. Worcestershire, and his first wife Maria, sister of John Gunning (qv); b. 28 Apr 1758; styled Viscount Deerhust 1758-1809; adm. 5 Mar 1767; left Whitsun 1775; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Jan 1776; blinded in hunting accident Nov 1780; Lord Lieut., Worcestershire from 23 Nov 1808; succ. father as 7th Earl of Coventry 3 Sep 1809; Recorder of Worcester; High Steward of Tewkesbury; m. 1st, 18 Mar 1777 Lady Catherine Henley, fourth dau. of Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington (qv); m. 2nd, 10 Jan 1783 Peggy, second dau. of Sir Abraham Pitches, Kt, Streatham, Surrey; d. 26 Mar 1831.
COVENTRY, HON. THOMAS HENRY, fourth son of George William Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry (qv) and his second wife; b. 18 Sep 1792; adm. 18 Jan 1805; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1811; BA 1815; MA 1827; ordained deacon and priest, 1816; Rector of Pirton with Croome D’Abitot, Worcs., 1 Nov 1816-33; Rector of Hill Croome, Worcs., from 19 Feb 1827; Rector of Severn Stoke, Worcs., from 2 Mar 1833; d. 20 Aug 1869.