Edward Cotton-Jodrell
Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell K.C.B. (29 June 1847 – 13 October 1917),[1] known until 1890 as Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton, was a British army officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900.
Cotton-Jodrell was the son of Rt. Rev. George Edward Lynch Cotton and his wife Sophia Ann Tomkinson and baptised with the name of Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton. His father was a master at Rugby School and later Bishop of Calcutta. Cotton was educated at Rugby, Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He joined the Royal Artillery and became captain.[2] Then with the Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Battalion) he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Cotton was elected at the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wirral at the 1885 general election and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election.[3] On 10 July 1890 his name was legally changed to Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell by Royal Licence.[4]
Cotton-Jodrell was J.P. for Cheshire, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1901.[5] He was on the Headquarters Staff of the War Office from 1906 to 1912 and became Colonel in the Territorial Forces. He was invested as a Knight Commander, Order of the Bath (K.C.B.).[6]
Cotton-Jodrell had residences at Yeardsley and Reaseheath, Nantwich, Cheshire, and at Shallcross, Cheshire.[7] He died at the age of 70.
Cotton-Jodrell married Mary Rennell Coleridge, daughter of William Rennell Coleridge and Katherine Frances Barton, on 24 April 1878 and had two surviving daughters.[6]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 26077. p. 4327. 8 August 1890. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27290. p. 1500. 1 March 1901.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 the Peerage.com
- ↑ Reaseheath Hall
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Cotton-Jodrell
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