Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
CORNER, Arthur Bloxham (2 son of Richard Corner of Southwark, London, solicitor, who d. 1820). b. parish of St. Olave’s, Southwark 29 Jany. 1803; clerk in the Crown office, Temple 1822, assistant master, May 1847; Queen’s coroner and attorney 26 April 1859 to death; published with his brother Richard James Corner The practice of the Crown side of the Court of Queen’s Bench 1844. d. Laurel cottage, Lee road, Blackheath 17 Jany. 1861.
CORNER, George Richard (brother of the preceding). b. parish of Ch. Ch. Blackfriar’s road, London 1801; admitted an attorney 1824; vestry clerk of parish of St. Olave, Southwark about 1835; F.S.A. 28 Nov. 1833, contributed papers to the Archæologia 1834–60; an original member of Numismatic Society of London 1836 and of British Archæol. Assoc. 1843; author of A concise account of the local government of the borough of Southwark 1836; The rental of St. Olave and St. John, Southwark 1838, 2 ed. 1851. d. Queen’s Row, Camberwell 31 Oct. 1863. C. R. Smith’s Collectanea Antiqua vi, 324–26 (1868); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xx, 181–6 (1864).
CORNER, Julia (dau. of John Corner of London, engraver). b. 1798; author of Historical Library 14 vols. 1840–48; Pictorial history of China and India 1846; Children’s own Sunday book 1850; History of the United Kingdom 1852; Little plays for little actors 2 vols. 1855, new ed. 1870; Calverley Rise, a tale 3 vols. 1861; No Relations 3 vols. 1864, and about 50 other books. d. 92 Clarendon road, Notting hill, London 16 Aug. 1875.
CORNER, Richard James (brother of George Richard Corner 1801–63). b. Lambeth 1805; barrister I.T. 1840; chief justice of the Gold Coast 13 March 1858; chief justice of British Honduras 3 July 1862 to 1872 when he resigned; one of the authors of Reports of cases in all the superior courts of common law 1853–55, 3 vols. in 5, 1853–55. d. East Moulsey, Surrey 27 Feb. 1876.
CORNEWALL, Sir Velters, 4 Baronet. b. Moccas court, Weobly, co. Hereford 20 Feb. 1824; succeeded 27 Dec. 1835; sheriff of co. Hereford 1847; joint master of the Herefordshire hunt; a breeder of hunters. d. 14 Oct. 1868.
CORNEY, Bolton. b. Greenwich 28 April 1784; ensign 28 foot 1803; first clerk in Steward’s department at Greenwich hospital 16 April 1834 to Dec. 1844; lived at Barnes, Surrey 1848 to death; a member of council of Shakespeare Soc. and of Camden Soc.; had a long controversy with Isaac D’Israeli respecting statements in his writings; author of Researches and conjectures on the Bayeux tapestry 1836; Curiosities of literature by I. D’Israeli illustrated 1837, 2 ed. to which are added Ideas on controversy, deduced from the practice of a Veteran 1838; The sonnets of William Shakspere, a critical disquisition 1862 privately printed, and many other works; his library was sold at Sotheby’s in June 1871 for £3539 9s. 6d. d. 29 The Terrace, Barnes 30 Aug. 1870. F. Hitchman’s Eighteenth century studies (1881), 254–71; Notes and Queries 4 series vi, 206 (1870), 6 series ii, 123 (1880), iv, 291 (1881).
CORNISH, Rev. Henry Hubert (2 son of Charles Cornish of Gatcombe house, Totnes). Matric. from Magd. hall, Ox. 19 Feb. 1835 aged 23, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1842, B.D. and D.D. 1866; chaplain of C.C. coll. 1845–50; tutor of New Inn hall 1858, principal 1866 to death, when the hall ceased to possess an independent existence having been made over to Balliol college by the University Commission. d. Oxford 9 June 1887.
CORNWALLIS, James Mann, 5 Earl. b. 20 Sep. 1778; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1798; M.P. for Eye, Suffolk 30 Oct. 1799 to 29 April 1807; succeeded 20 Jany. 1824. d. Linton place near Maidstone 21 May 1852.
CORNWALLIS, Caroline Frances (younger dau. of Rev. Wm. Cornwallis 1751–1827, R. of Elham, Kent). b. 12 July 1786; learnt Latin, Greek, Hebrew and German; shared with Micaiah Hill prize of £200 given by Lady Byron for best essay on ‘Juvenile Delinquency’ 1853; chief projector of a series of 22 vols. entitled Small books on great subjects edited by some well-wishers to knowledge 1841, author of many of the vols. including the first which was entitled Philosophical theories and philosophical experience by a Pariah 1841; published Pericles, a tale of Athens in the 83rd Olympiad 2 vols. 1846, anon.; An exposition of the vulgar and common errors adapted to the year of grace, MDCCCXLV, by Thomas Brown redivivus 1846. d. Lidwells near Goudhurst, Kent 8 Jany. 1858. Selections from the letters of C. F. Cornwallis (1864).
CORRI, Haydn (son of Domenico Corri, Italian musical composer 1746–1825). b. Edinburgh 1785; teacher of music at Dublin; composed a few glees and songs, one of which his vocal arrangement of The harmonious blacksmith used to be much sung; organist to the cathedral, Great Marlborough st. Dublin; arranged for the organ under Cherubini’s instruction that composer’s famous mass in D (written for coronation of Charles X) and added an additional voice part; wrote the music to There grows a bonny briar bush 1815, Can you love me, lady fair 1820, Music can guide the soul 1821, O fly to the woods 1821; his wife was chief singer at all the great concerts in Dublin many years, and d. Leeds 10 April 1867 in 68 year, he d. Dublin 19 Feb. 1860. Era 26 Feb. 1860 p. 11, col. 2.
CORRI, Patrick Anthony (son of the preceding). b. 1820; chorister in churches in Dublin; first appeared in London at Princess’s theatre about 1845 as a baritone singer; sang at Manchester; sang in operas at Grecian theatre, London 1849; musical director at Weston’s music hall, Holborn, London 1857 to death, the name was changed from Weston’s to The Royal 1868; composed some vocal music. d. Bradford 1 June 1876. bur. Scholemore cemetery 3 June. Entr’acte 10 June 1876 p. 8, 17 June p. 7, portrait; Era 11 June 1876, p. 6.
CORRIE, Archibald. b. Perthshire 1777; held a horticultural post near Edinburgh about 1797–1807; manager of the estate of Annat near Errol in Perthshire 1807–57; contributed agricultural reports to Scottish papers; contributed many papers on agriculture and horticulture to Loudon’s and other magazines. d. Annat cottage near Errol 1857 in 80 year.
CORRIE, Rev. George Elwes (son of Rev. John Corrie, C. of Colsterworth, co. Lincoln). b. Colsterworth 28 April 1793; entered Catharine hall, Cam., Oct. 1813, 18 wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1831, D.D. 1853; fellow of his college 1818, assistant tutor, dean and steward 1820, tutor 1821–49; Norrisian professor of divinity in Univ. of Cam. 1838–54; exam. chaplain to bishop of Ely 1845–64; master of Jesus coll. Cam. Dec. 1849 to death; vice chancellor 1850; R. of Newton, Isle of Ely 1851 to death; rural dean of Wisbech 1851–78; a founder of Cambridge Antiquarian Soc. 1840; leader of Conservative party in Univ. of Cam.; published Catalogue of the original library of St. Catharine’s hall 1840; The sermons and remains of Hugh Latimer 2 vols. 1844; History of the Reformation by G. Burnet 1847; edited A concise history of the church and state of England during the reign of Henry VIII 1874; edited for the University Press An Historical Vindication of the Church of England by Sir R. Twysden 1847; The Homilies 1850; and A rational illustration of the book of Common Prayer, by C. Wheatley 1858. d. The lodge, Jesus college, Cambridge 20 Sep. 1885.
CORRIE, William. b. Wellingborough 1806; practised as solicitor; barrister I.T. 10 June 1836; magistrate at Clerkenwell police court, London 1851–60, at Bow st. 1860–64; remembrancer of city of London 1864 to June 1878; author of An analysis of the Municipal Boroughs bill 1870. d. 26 Cleveland sq. London 24 March 1881.
CORRIGAN, Sir Dominic John, 1 Baronet (2 son of John Corrigan of Dublin, merchant, who d. 1838). b. 91 Thomas st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1802; M.D. Edin. 1825, M.D. Dublin 1849; lecturer on medicine in Carmichael school, Dublin 1833; phys. to the House of Industry hospitals 1840–66; M.R.C.S. London 1843; phys. in ord. to Queen in Ireland 23 Nov. 1847; medical comr. under Medical Charities Act 1851; fellow of King and Queen’s college of phys. in Ireland 27 Oct. 1856, pres. 1859–64; created baronet 5 Feb. 1866; M.P. for city of Dublin 1870 to 1874; vice chancellor of Queen’s univ. Dublin, June 1871; author of On famine and fever in Ireland 1846; Lectures on the nature and treatment of fever 1853; Ten days in Athens with notes by the way 1862. d. Merrion sq. Dublin 1 Feb. 1880. Irish Monthly viii, 160–71 (1880); I.L.N. xlviii, 252 (1866), portrait.
CORRY, Armar Lowry. Entered navy 1 Aug. 1805, captain 23 July 1821; admiralty superintendent of packet service at Southampton 1850–52; R.A. 8 March 1852; commanded western squadron on the Home and Lisbon stations 1852–54; second in command of English fleet in the Baltic, March to July 1854; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. Paris 2 May 1855 aged 62.
CORRY, Henry Thomas Lowry (younger son of 2 Earl of Belmore 1774–1841). b. Dublin 9 March 1803; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1829; M.P. for co. Tyrone 20 June 1826 to death; comptroller of the household 29 Dec. 1834 to 1835; P.C. 23 Feb. 1835; a lord of the Admiralty 8 Sep. 1841 to 12 Feb. 1845, sec. to the Admiralty 13 Feb. 1845 to 13 July 1846, and March 1858 to June 1859; vice pres. of committee of privy council for education 12 July 1866 to March 1867, fourth charity comr. 18 July 1866; first lord of the Admiralty, March 1867 to Dec. 1868; author of Naval promotion and retirement 1863; The Navy, Speeches in House of Commons 1872. d. Bournemouth 6 March 1873. I.L.N. lxii, 259, 280, 282 (1873), portrait.
CORSER, Rev. Thomas (3 son of George Corser of Whitchurch, Salop, banker). b. Whitchurch 1793; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; C. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1823–6; R. of Stand near Manchester 8 Sep. 1826 to death; V. of Norton by Daventry, Northamptonshire 1828 to death; rural dean of Prestwich 1852–68; F.S.A. 1850; one of projectors of Chetham Society 1843; edited for the Society Chester’s Triumph 1844, Iter Lancastrense by R. James 1845, Robinson’s Golden Mirror 1850, and Collectanea Anglopoetica 5 parts 1860–80 being a description of the rare books in his own library which realised upwards of £20,000 when sold in London in 7 portions 1868–74. d. Stand rectory 24 Aug. 1876. Manchester school register iii, 32–36 (1874).
CORYTON, John Rawlins. Second lieut. R.M. 6 July 1803; col. commandant of Plymouth division 23 Dec. 1851 to 20 June 1855; granted good service pension 5 Sep. 1858; general 8 Sep. 1858. d. Woolwich 12 Sep. 1867 aged 77.
COSTA, Sir Michael Andrew Agnus (son of Cavaliere Pasquale Costa, who d. 1845). b. Naples 4 Feb. 1810; accompanist at San Carlo theatre, Naples 1828; sang at Birmingham musical festival, Oct. 1829; director of music at King’s theatre, London 1832–46; the first person in England to conduct with a baton instead of a violin bow 1832; naturalised in England 28 July 1845; director of music at Covent Garden 1846–66; conductor of the Philharmonic concerts 1846–54; conductor of Sacred harmonic society 22 Sep. 1848; directed triennial musical festivals at Birmingham 1849–79 and at Leeds 1874–80; directed Handel festivals at Crystal palace 1857–77; knighted at Windsor castle 14 April 1869; director of Her Majesty’s opera 1871–79; the first master of the art of conducting in England; composed oratorios of Eli and Naaman produced at Birmingham musical festivals 29 Aug. 1855 and 7 Sep. 1864, opera of Malek Adhel produced in Paris 1837 and in London 1838, and opera of Don Carlos produced at Her Majesty’s opera 1844; wrote many songs and other music. d. 13 Seafield, West Brighton 29 April 1884. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 6 May. Illust. Review i, 385–6 (1874), portrait; Touchstone 15 Feb. 1879, p. 3, portrait; Illust. news of the world iii, 385 (1859), portrait; I.L.N. i, 124 (1842), portrait, iv, 404 (1844), portrait, xxx, 13 (1857), portrait, lxxxiv, 440 (1884), portrait.
COSTELLO, Dudley (only son of James Francis Costello, captain 14 foot). b. Sussex 1803; ensign 34 foot 1821–23 when placed on h.p.; ensign 96 foot 1824–28 when placed on h.p.; served on the staff in North America and West Indies; contributed to many periodicals 1835 to death; foreign correspondent of Morning Herald 1838, of Daily News 1846; connected with the Examiner 1845 to death; granted civil list pension of £75 a year 19 April 1861; author of A tour through the valley of the Meuse 1845; Stories from a screen 1855; The joint-stock bank 1856; The millionaire of Mincing lane 1858; Faint heart never won fair lady 1859; Piedmont and Italy from the Alps to the Tiber 2 vols. 1859–61; Holidays with Hobgoblins 1861. d. 54 Acacia road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 Sep. 1865. Bentley’s Miscellany lviii, 543–50 (1865); The Examiner 7 Oct. 1865 p. 637.
COSTELLO, Louisa Stuart (only sister of the preceding). b. 1799; a miniature painter in Paris and London; copied many curious illuminated MSS. in Paris and London; granted civil list pension of £75, 9 Aug. 1852; lived at Boulogne 1865 to death; author of The maid of the Cyprus Isle and other poems 1815; Songs of a stranger 1825; A summer among the Bocages and the vines 1840; Memoirs of eminent Englishwomen 1844; The falls, lakes and mountains of North Wales 1845; The lay of the stork, a poem 1856 and 12 other books. d. of cancer in the mouth, at Boulogne 24 April 1870.
COSTELLO, William Birmingham. b. Dublin 1800; a surgeon in London about 1832; proprietor of Wyke house asylum, Sion hill, Brentford; edited Cyclopædia of practical surgery 12 parts 1841–3. d. Paris 15 Aug. 1867.
COTES, John. b. 17 July 1799; sheriff of Shropshire 1826; M.P. for North Shropshire 21 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834. d. Woodcote hall, Newport, Shropshire 10 Jany. 1874.
COTHER, Charles. Ensign 71 foot, Feb. 1800, lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1814; lieut. col. 83 foot 24 Oct. 1816 to 25 Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; retired 3 Dec. 1829; C.B. 8 Dec. 1815. d. York buildings, Gloucester 24 Jany. 1855.
COTMAN, Joseph John (2 son of John Sell Cotman, landscape painter 1782–1842). b. 1814; a drawing master at Norwich 1836; an artist of much original power; produced a large number of good drawings; underwent an operation for cancer of the tongue, Feb. 1878. d. Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 15 March 1878.
COTMAN, Miles Edmund (brother of the preceding). b. 5 Jany. 1810; drawing master at Norwich to 1836; assistant drawing master at King’s college, London 1836, drawing master 1843; painted and taught at North Walsham latterly; exhibited 4 landscapes at R.A., 10 at B.I. and 19 at Society of British Artists 1835–56; published Eleven original etchings, Norwich 1846. d. Norfolk and Norwich hospital, Norwich 23 Jany. 1858.
COTON, William. Pyrotechnic artist at 4 Elizabeth place, Westminster bridge, London; supplied the fireworks for Vauxhall gardens; killed by an explosion of fireworks at his factory 6 March 1854, his widow was killed by an explosion at same place 12 July 1858. Annual Register (1854) 40, (1858) 120–2.
COTTENHAM, Charles Christopher Pepys, 1 Earl of (2 son of Sir Wm. Weller Pepys, 1 baronet 1740–1825, master in chancery). b. Wimpole st. London 29 April 1781; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., LL.B. 1803; barrister L.I. 23 Nov. 1804; practised in court of chancery; K.C. 24 Aug. 1826; solicitor general to Queen Adelaide, Nov. 1830; M.P. for Higham Ferrers 14 July 1831 to Sep. 1831, for Malton 30 Sep. 1831 to Jany. 1836; solicitor general 22 Feb. 1834; knighted at St. James’s Palace 26 Feb. 1834; Master of the Rolls 29 Sep. 1834; P.C. 1 Oct. 1834; first comr. of the Great Seal 23 April 1835; lord chancellor 16 Jany. 1836 to 3 Sep. 1841 and 6 July 1846 to 19 June 1850 when he resigned; created Baron Cottenham of Cottenham, co. Cambridge 20 Jany. 1836; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 5 Oct. 1845 and his cousin Rev. Sir H. L. Pepys as 4 baronet 9 Dec. 1849; created Viscount Crowhurst and Earl of Cottenham 11 June 1850; the act 10 & 11 Vict. c. 96 whereby trustees are authorised to pay trust moneys into court is known as Lord Cottenham’s act. d. Pietra Santa, Duchy of Lucca 29 April 1851. bur. Totteridge, Herts. Doyle’s Official baronage i, 464 (1886), portrait; Law Mag. xlvi, 280–8 (1851); Law Review xiv, 353–9 (1851); Law mag. and law review xxvii, 264–72 (1869); Lord Cottenham’s Earldom, 2 ed. 1850.
COTTER, George Sackville. Second lieut. Madras artillery 15 June 1827, lieut. col. 1 Sep. 1860 to 15 Nov. 1861 when he retired; commanded at siege and capture of Lucknow, July 1857 to March 1858; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. 25 June 1878.
COTTER, Sir Ludlow (eld. son of Sir James Laurence Cotter, 4 baronet of Rockforest, Mallow, Cork, b. 1828). b. Dublin 11 June 1853; knighted by the Queen at Windsor castle 12 Dec. 1874 in accordance with a special privilege contained in the patent as the eldest son of a baronet. d. Rockforest 24 Nov. 1882.
COTTERILL, Right Rev. Henry (son of Rev. Joseph Cotterill, R. of Blakeney, Norfolk, who d. 14 Feb. 1858 aged 78). b. Ampton, Suffolk 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., Bell’s scholar, fellow 1835; senior wrangler and first Smith’s prizeman 1835, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, D.D. 1857; chaplain at Madras 1836–47; vice principal of Brighton college 1847–51, principal 1851–56; bishop of Grahamstown 4 Nov. 1856 to 26 April 1871 when he was elected co-adjutor bishop of Edinburgh; bishop of Edin. April 1872 to death; author of The Seven ages of the Church 1849; The Genesis of the Church 1872; Does science aid faith in regard to creation 1883 and many other works. d. Manor place, Edin. 16 April 1886.
COTTINGHAM, Nockalls Johnson (elder son of Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, architect 1787–1847). b. 1823; an architect; assisted his father, especially in restoration of Hereford cathedral where he designed the reredos 1847; a designer for stained glass. Lost in the steamship Arctic which foundered about 50 miles from Cape Race on her way from Liverpool to New York 27 Sep. 1854.
COTTLE, Joseph. b. 1770; bookseller at Bristol 1791–99; published several of the works of the Lake poets Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth; author of Malvern Hills 1798, 4 ed. 1829; Alfred, an epic poem 1800, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1804; John the Baptist, a poem 1801; The fall of Cambria, a poem 2 vols. 1808, 2 ed. 1811; Early recollections chiefly relating to Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 vols. 1837–39, 2 ed. 1847. d. Fairfield house, Knowle near Bristol 7 June 1853. Pen and ink sketches, 2 ed. (1847) 165–74; J. Cottle’s Early recollections (1837), portrait.
COTTON, Corbet. b. 10 Aug. 1808; ensign 19 foot 9 April 1825; assistant adjutant general of cavalry at head quarters 21 Aug. 1854 to 4 Oct. 1859; colonel 101 foot 29 Dec. 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877. d. 65 Warwick sq. Belgravia, London 30 April 1885.
COTTON, Francis Vere (son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote, Oxfordshire, who d. 15 May 1831 aged 81). b. 16 June 1799; entered navy, May 1814; captain 23 Nov. 1841; placed on retired list 4 June 1855; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. Alport house, Whitchurch, Salop 30 Jany. 1884.
COTTON, Right Rev. George Edward Lynch (only son of Thomas D’Avenant Cotton, captain 7 fusiliers, who was killed at Nivelle near Bayonne 13 Nov. 1813). b. Chester 29 Oct. 1813; ed. at Westminster and Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1838, B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, D.D. 1858; assistant master at Rugby 1837–52, ‘the young master’ of Tom Brown’s School Days; master of Marlborough 1852–58 which he completely reorganised; bishop of Calcutta 29 March 1858 to death; consecrated in Westminster abbey 13 May 1858, installed 14 Nov. 1858; established schools in Bengal for educating the middle classes; author of numerous sermons, charges and other works; drowned at Kushtiâ on the Gorai river 6 Oct. 1866, body never found. Memoir of G. E. L. Cotton edited by Mrs. Cotton, new ed. (1872); Macmillan’s Mag. xv, 102–111 (1866); I.L.N. xxxii, 525 (1858), portrait.
COTTON, Very Rev. Henry. b. Bucks 1790; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch, Ox., reader in Greek 1810, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1813; sub-librarian at the Bodleian library 1814–22; a student of Ch. Ch.; domestic chaplain to archbishop of Cashel 1823; preb. of Killardriffe, Cashel 1 Oct. 1823 to 19 June 1824; archdeacon of Cashel 19 June 1824; treasurer of Ch. Ch. cathedral, Dublin 12 June 1832; dean of Lismore 16 Dec. 1834 to 1850; author of A list of editions of the Bible in English from 1505 to 1820, with specimens of translations 1821, 2 ed. 1852; A typographical gazetteer attempted 1824, 2 ed. 1831, second series 1866; The five books of Maccabees in English 1833; Fasti ecclesiæ Hibernicæ 5 vols. 1845–78; The four gospels and the acts of the apostles with short notes 1857, and many other works. d. Lismore 3 Dec. 1879.
COTTON, Very Rev. James Henry (2 son of Very Rev. George Cotton 1742–1805, dean of Chester). b. the deanery, Chester 8 Feb. 1781; ed. at Chester and St. John’s coll. Cam., LL.B. 1804; V. of Bangor 1819–38; precentor of Bangor 31 March 1810 to 31 March 1838; R. of Llanllechyd, Carnarvonshire 1821 to death; dean of Bangor 31 March 1838 to death; author of sermons, pamphlets and addresses. d. the deanery, Bangor 28 May 1862.
COTTON, John. Writer Madras civil service 1801; principal magistrate of Tangore 1821–27; annuitant on the fund 1 May 1830; a director of East India Co. 30 April 1833, deputy chairman of Court of directors 1842, chairman 1843–45. d. Westbourne terrace, Hyde Park, London 16 July 1860 aged 76.
COTTON, Rev. Richard Lynch (brother of Francis Vere Cotton 1799–1884). b. Woodcote 14 Aug. 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. 1839; scholar of Worcester coll. 8 May 1815, fellow 7 May 1816, tutor, dean and bursar, provost Feb. 1839 to death, resided continuously in Worcester coll. 1815 to 1880; V. of Denchworth near Wantage 1823–39; vice chancellor of Univ. of Ox. 1852–57; promoted building of Shippon, Dry Sandford and Headington Quarry churches; author of Scriptural view of the Lord’s Supper 1837; The way of salvation plainly and practically traced 1837; Lectures on the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper 1849. d. Oxford 8 Dec. 1880. bur. Holywell cemetery 14 Dec. Guardian 29 Dec. 1880 p. 1, 819.
COTTON, Sir Saint Vincent, 6 Baronet (eld. son of admiral Sir Charles Cotton, 5 baronet 1753–1812). b. Madingley hall, Cambs. 6 Oct. 1801; succeeded 24 Feb. 1812; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; cornet 10 light dragoons 13 May 1827, lieut. 13 Dec. 1827 to 19 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; distinguished himself in the hunting, shooting, racing and pugilistic world; played in Marylebone cricket matches 1830–35; a great player at hazard; dissipated all his property; drove the ‘Age’ coach from Brighton to London and back for some years from 1836. d. 5 Hyde park terrace, Kensington road, London 25 Jany. 1863. New sporting mag. xii, 81, 421 (1837), portrait.
COTTON, Sir Sydney John (brother of Rev. Richard Lynch Cotton 1794–1880). b. 2 Dec. 1792; cornet 22 dragoons 19 April 1810; lieut. col. 28 foot 8 Jany. 1843; lieut. col. 22 foot 2 Dec. 1847; lieut. col. 10 foot 14 Dec. 1854 to 26 Oct. 1858; commanded the troops on north west frontier of India during Indian mutiny 1857–58; col. 10 foot 5 Feb. 1863 to death; L.G. 20 April 1866; governor of Chelsea hospital 10 May 1872 to death; K.C.B. 24 March 1858, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; author of Remarks on drill 1857; Nine years on the north west frontier of India 1868; The Central Asian question, a prophecy fulfilled 1869, reprinted 1878. d. Chelsea hospital 20 Feb. 1874. F. Brodigan’s Historical record of 28 Foot (1884) 94–9; Kaye’s Sepoy Mutiny ii, 453, et seq.; I.L.N. xxxii, 489 (1858), portrait; Graphic ix, 314, 328 (1874), portrait.
COTTON, William (son of Wm. Cotton of the Customs, who d. Balham hill near London 27 Oct. 1816 aged 58). b. 1794; made a special study of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s works; F.S.A.; author of A graphic and historical sketch of the antiquities of Totnes 1850; Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Gleanings from his diary 1856; Some account of the ancient borough town of Plympton St. Maurice or Plympton Earl 1859; gave a fine collection of books, prints and drawings to the Plymouth public library which erected a building for their reception and opened it to the public 1 June 1853. d. 8 West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 22 Jany. 1863. G.M. xiv, 520–22 (1863).
COTTON, William (3 son of Joseph Cotton of Leyton, Essex 1745–1825, deputy master of the Trinity house). b. Leyton 12 Sep. 1786; partner in firm of Huddart and Co. manufacturers of registered cables at Limehouse, London 1807; one of founders of National Society 1811; a director of Bank of England 1821–66, governor 1843–45, invented automatic weighing machine for gold 1844, still in use and called after him ‘the governor’; member of S.P.C.K. 50 years, treasurer; F.R.S. 21 May 1821; sheriff of Essex 1837; built and endowed St. Thomas’s church, Bethnal Green 1844 and St. Paul’s church, Bow Common 1847. d. Walwood house, Leytonstone, Essex 1 Dec. 1866, a painted memorial window to his memory was placed by public subscription in St. Paul’s cathedral. G.M. iii, 111–13 (1867); I.L.N. v, 20 (1844), portrait.
COTTON, Sir Willoughby (only son of Rowland Cotton, admiral R.N., who d. 3 Nov. 1794). b. Upper Grosvenor st. London 1783; ed. at Rugby where he was leader of a rebellion Nov. 1797; ensign 3 foot guards 31 Oct. 1798; lieut. col. 47 foot 17 May 1821, lieut. col. 14 foot 13 Oct. 1828 to 22 July 1830; commanded forces in Jamaica 1829–34 where he put down an insurrection of the slaves 1831; commanded first division of Bengal army in Afghan war 1838–39; commander in chief at Bombay 8 April 1847 to 30 Dec. 1850; colonel of 98 foot 1 Aug. 1839 to 17 April 1854, and of 32 foot 17 April 1854 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826, K.C.B. 19 July 1838, G.C.B. 21 Jany. 1840; K.C.H. 1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 17 July 1830. d. 15 Lowndes sq. London 4 May 1860.
COUCH, Jonathan (only child of Richard Couch of Polperro, Cornwall 1739–1823). b. Polperro 15 March 1789; surgeon at Polperro 1810 to death; F.L.S. 6 April 1824; contributed to T. Bewick’s British Quadrupeds and W. Yarrell’s British Fishes; author of Cornish Fauna 3 parts 1838–44; Illustrations of instinct deduced from the habits of British animals 1847; A history of the fishes of the British islands 4 vols. 1860–65; translated Pliny’s Natural history 3 vols. 1847–50, published by the Wernerian Club. d. Polperro 13 April 1870. The history of Polperro by the late Jonathan Couch, with a short account of his life by T. Q. Couch 1871; Life of a Scotch naturalist Thomas Edward (1877) 292, 296, 333–49.
COUCH, Richard Quiller (eld. son of the preceding). b. Polperro 14 March 1816; ed. at Guy’s hospital, London; M.R.C.S. 1838, L.S.A. 1839; surgeon at Polperro; practised at Penzance 1843 to death; a sec. and curator of Penzance Natural history and antiquarian soc. 1845 to death; curator of Royal Geol. Soc. of Cornwall 1848 to death; contributed the third part (on the Zoophytes) to his father’s Cornish Fauna 1844, and an account of natural history of West Cornwall to J. S. Courtney’s Guide to Penzance 1845. d. Penzance 8 May 1863. G.M. xv, 106–8 (1863).
COUCH, Thomas Quiller (brother of the preceding). b. Polperro 28 May 1826; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon at Bodmin 1855 to death; F.S.A. 26 March 1870; a constant contributor to Notes and Queries, from which two series of his articles The folklore of a Cornish village 1855 and 1857 have been incorporated in his father’s History of Polperro 1871; published in the Journal of the Royal instit. of Cornwall 1864 and 1870 lists of local words afterwards included in a Glossary of words in use in Cornwall issued by the English Dialect Society 1880. d. Bodmin 23 Oct. 1884.
COULSON, Walter (2 son of Thomas Coulson, master painter in Devonport dockyard, who d. 1845). b. Torpoint, Cornwall 1794; amanuensis to Jeremy Bentham; parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle; editor of the Traveller 1822, of the Globe and Traveller 1823; barrister G.I. 26 Nov. 1828, bencher, Nov. 1851; recorder of Penzance 18 July 1836 to Jany. 1838; Q.C. July 1851; parliamentary draughtsman for the home office; member of Political Economy club, June 1821; a registration and conveyancing comr. 1847; member of royal commission for Great Exhibition 1851. d. North bank, St. John’s Wood, London 21 Nov. 1860. Leigh Hunt’s Correspondence i, 98, 120, 126–34.
COULSON, William (brother of the preceding). b. Torpoint, Cornwall 15 Sep. 1801; studied in Berlin 1824–26; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1861; a founder of Aldersgate st. school of medicine 1826; surgeon to Aldersgate st. dispensary 1828–32; consulting surgeon to City of London Lying-in hospital 1830; senior surgeon to St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; sheriff of Cornwall 1863; F.S.A. 19 June 1856; accumulated £200,000, one of the largest fortunes ever made in practice; author of On deformities of the chest 1836, 2 ed. 1837; On diseases of the hip joint 1837, 2 ed. 1841; On diseases of the bladder and prostate gland 1838, 6 ed. 1865; On lithotrity and lithotomy 1853; Lectures on diseases of the joints 1854. d. 1 Chester terrace, Regent’s park, London 5 May 1877. Medical Circular ii, 329–32, 349–51 (1853), portrait; Beattie’s Life of T. Campbell ii, 448–52 (1849).
COULTON, David Trevena. b. Devizes 1810; contributed to Quarterly Review; founded the Britannia, a weekly journal of news, politics and literature 13 April 1839 which he sold 1850; edited the Press and St. James’s Chronicle, weekly paper 1854 to death; invented a plan for an atmospheric railway; author of Fortune, a romance of life 3 vols. 1853; and of An inquiry into the authorship of the letters of Junius. d. Brighton 8 May 1857.
COUPER, Sir George, 1 Baronet (elder son of Robert Couper, M.D. of Fochabers, Morayshire). b. 21 June 1788; ensign 69 foot 2 Nov. 1797; major 92 foot 30 Dec. 1819 to 20 March 1823 when placed on h.p.; principal equerry and comptroller of the household to Duchess of Kent 1839 to death; K.H. 1831, C.B. 19 July 1838; created baronet 23 June 1841. d. Frogmore near Windsor 28 Feb. 1861.