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English Anglican priest
George Cotton |
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Born | (1743-05-21)21 May 1743
Combermere |
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Died | 10 December 1805(1805-12-10) (aged 62)
Bath |
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Nationality | English |
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Occupation | Anglican priest |
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George Cotton (21 May 1743 – 10 December 1805) was an
English
Anglican
priest, most notably
Dean of Chester
[1] from 1787 until his death.
[2]
Cholmondeley was born at
Combermere in
Cheshire and was educated at
Westminster and
Trinity College, Cambridge.
[3] He held
livings at
South Reston,
Stowe,
Stoke-upon-Trent and
Davenham. He died at
Bath.
His grandson was
Bishop of Calcutta from 1858 until 1866.
[4]
Notes
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British History on-line
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^ 'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries'
Liverpool Mercury(Liverpool, England), Friday, December 1, 1815; Issue 231
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Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900,
John Venn/
John Archibald Venn
Cambridge University Press
> (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p148
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Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D. 1871
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