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Cotton, George, ca. 1744-1805
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ca. 1744-1805
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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.
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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.