Venn:
Adm. pens. (age 18) at CORPUS CHRISTI, Nov. 27, 1827. Of Middlesex. [S. of Thomas Cotton [CCE10864], clerk, of Sheepy, Leics. B. 1809. School, Rugby.] ' Matric. Michs. 1827. Migrated to Peterhouse (Thomas Fell secundus), Oct. 18, 1828. B.A. 1831; M.A. 1835. Ord. deacon (Rochester, Litt. dim. from Ely) Feb. 2, 1833; priest, Feb. 16, 1834. P.C. of Trinity Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics., Oct. 21, 1840. P.C. of St Matthew's, Rugby, 1853. (With Tait, P.C., 1853-6.) Succeeded his father as R. (and patron) of Gt and Little Sheepy with Ratcliffe-Culey, Leics., 1856-67. Hon. Canon of Peterborough, 1853-67. Died Apr. 3, 1867, at Acton vicarage, Suffolk. Father of Rowland A. (1863) and Walter T. (1875); brother of John E. (1833). (G. Mag., 1867, 1. 689, which erroneously gives B.A. 1829, the date for Thomas primus (1824); Rugby Sch. Reg.; Crockford; Northants. Clergy; Foster, Index Eccles.; T. A. Walker, 435.)