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, 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 (alias ROGERS), THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS Oct 1553 (Acts of Chapter); left Nov 1553.

Cotterill, Edward Emilius, youngest son of the Rev. George Edward Cotterill, of Weybridge, Surrey, by Anna Manuela, daughter of Gregory Seale Walters, Agent-Gen. in London for South Australia; b. June 15, 1881; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 27, 1894; left Dec. 1898 owing to ill health, and became a lifelong invalid; d. March 13, 1916.

COTTER, ROGERSON, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1762; Capt. of the School 1766; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1767, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1767, scholar 29 Apr 1768, matr. Mich. 1767; BA and 10th Wrangler 1771; MA 1774; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1771, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1774; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766; called to Irish bar (King’s Inns) Trin. 1773; MP (I) Charleville 1783-97, 1798-1800; m. Sep 1794 Jane, widow of William Grady, and dau. of Richard Harrold, Limerick; d. 19 Feb 1830.

COTTER, SIR JAMES LAURENCE, BART., eldest son of Sir James Cotter, Bart., MP (I), and Arabella, widow of Col. --- Casaubon, MP (I), Carrig, co. Cork, and dau. of Right Hon. John Rogerson, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; b.; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1762; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1766 - void by marriage 16 Jan 1773; BA 1770; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Aug 1766; MP (I) Taghmon 1769-76, Mallow 1783-90, Castlemartyr 1790-7, 1798-1800; succ. father as 2nd baronet 9 Jun 1770; partner, Cotter & Kellet, bankers, Cork; m. 1st, c. Jan. 1773, Anne, only dau. of Francis Kearney, Garretstown, nr. Kinsale, co. Cork; m. 2nd, 16 Jul 1785 (IGI) Isabella, widow of George Brereton, Carrigslaney, co. Carlow, and dau. of Rev. James Hingston, Aglish, co. Cork, Prebendary of Cloyne; d. 9 Feb 1829.

COTTER, GEORGE SACKVILLE, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b. ; in school list Jun 1764; KS (Capt. , aged 13) 1765; Capt. of the School 1770; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1771, scholar 15 May 1772, matr. 1774; BA 1775; MA 1779; ordained deacon 12 May 1776, priest 1 Nov 1778 (both Cork); Curate, Cloyne, 21 Jun 1781; Vicar of Kilmichael, co. Cork 18 Feb 1784 - May 1797; Rector of Tullcredan, Garryvoe and Ightermurragh, co. Cork, from 27 May 1797; author, two volumes of poems, 1788, and of translations of comedies of Plautus, 1826, and Terence, 1827; m. 4 Nov 1775 (IGI) Margaret, dau. of Bayley Rogers, Cork city, physician and banker; d. 4 Apr 1831. DNB.

COTTER, EDMUND, brother of Sir James Laurence Cotter, Bart. (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1762; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1766, matr. 18 Jun 1766, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1766; BA 1770; d. unm. Sep 1770, “owing to a wound in a fray”.

COTHER, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Cother FRCS, surgeon, Gloucester, and Mary Eliza --- (IGI); b. 8 Nov 1812; adm. 20 Jan 1825 (Stikeman's); KS (Capt. ) 1826; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1830, matr. 28 May 1830, Westminster Student to 1837; BA 1834; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 28 Jan 1835, called to bar 19 Nov 1842; Oxford Circuit; practised as a conveyancer in Gloucester; m. 30 Apr 1850 Marion, youngest dau. of John Warburton MD; d. at Dinant, France 20 Mar 1870.

Corsellis, John, son of Douglas Henry Corsellis, barrister, and Helen Mary, sister of Philip Manley Bendall (qv); b. 14 Jan. 1923; adm. Sept. 1936 (H), (KS) Sept. 1937; left July 1940; articled clerk Herbert & Gowers Oxf. 1941-9; humanitarian aid worker Friends Ambulance Unit 1942, UNRRA 1945-7; adm. solicitor Mar. 1949; gen. sec., Educational Interchange Council 1949-62; OM (1st class) Fed. Rep. of Germany 1963; registrar, Bell Sch. of Languages 1962-92, subsequently bursar and principal; sec., Bell Educ. Trust 1952-92; registrar Camb. Centre for Languages, Sawston Hall 1982-91; retd. 1991; co-author Slovenia 1945: Memories of death and survival after World War II 2005 and co-researcher The Unassuming Sky: The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis 2012; initiated Timothy Corsellis Prize Competition in memory of elder brother, featuring the World War II War Poets; John Corsellis archive accessible at History Dept., Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich; m. 26 May 1966 Ursula Ann Constance Alder OBE MA SRN SCM JP, author, d. of Haswell Alder, mining engineer, of Burnbridge, Yorks.; d. 18 Nov. 2018.