George_Cotton_(priest)

George Cotton (priest)

George Cotton (priest)

English Anglican priest

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]

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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]

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  1. [1]
    British History on-line
  2. [2]
    'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' Liverpool Mercury(Liverpool, England), Friday, December 1, 1815; Issue 231
  3. [3]
    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
  4. [4]
    Memoir of George Edward Lynch Cotton, D.D. 1871
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