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'''Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCB|DL}} (29 June 1847 – 13 October 1917),<ref>{{Rayment-hc|w|4|date=March 2012}}</ref> known until 1890 as '''Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton''', was a British army officer and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 to 1900.
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'''Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB|DL}} (29 June 1847 – 13 October 1917<ref>{{Rayment-hc|w|4|date=March 2012}}</ref>), known until 1890 as '''Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton''', was a British Army officer and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 to 1900.

==Early life and education==
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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, from 1852, headmaster of [[Marlborough College]] until appointed [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]] in 1858.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|first1=A. J.|last1= Arbuthnot|title=Cotton, George Edward Lynch (1813–1866)|first2=. David W.|last2=Savage|id=6412}}</ref> The young Edward Cotton was consequently educated at Rugby and Marlborough College before entering the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]].<ref name="Debrett">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft#page/34/mode/2up |title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench |date=1886 |publisher=[[Debrett's]] |page=34}}</ref>

==Military career==
On completing his military training he was promoted [[lieutenant]] on 15 July 1868.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23400|page=3940|date=14 July 1868}}</ref> He joined the [[Royal Artillery]] and became captain on 1 August 1879.<ref name="Debrett"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24748|page=4752|date=1 August 1879}}</ref> After having commenced his political career, he assumed command of the volunteer territorial Cheshire (Railway Battalion) of the [[Royal Engineers]] with the rank of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in 1888, and was granted the honorary rank of [[colonel]] ten years later.<ref name="BLG1">[[Burke's Landed Gentry]]: {{cite book |title=Burke's Landed Gentry : A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858027897994&seq=836 |date=1898 |edition=9 |volume=1 |page=816}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25820|page=2956|date=26 May 1888}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26999|page=5145|date=27 August 1898}}</ref> He was on the Headquarters Staff of the [[War Office]] from 1906 to 1912 and was awarded the [[Territorial Decoration]] in 1909.<ref name=peerage/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28238|page=2597|date=2 April 1909}}</ref>


==Political and public career==
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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 [[Anglican Diocese of Calcutta|Bishop of Calcutta]]. Cotton was educated at Rugby, [[Marlborough College]] and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]. He joined the [[Royal Artillery]] and became captain.<ref name=Debrett>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft#page/34/mode/2up Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886]</ref> Then with the Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Battalion) he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
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Cotton was elected as [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)|Wirral]] at the [[1885 United Kingdom general election|1885 general election]] and held the seat until he stood down at the [[1900 United Kingdom general election|1900 general election]].<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |origyear=1974 |edition=2nd |year=1989 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn=0-900178-27-2 |page=237}}</ref>
Cotton-Jodrell was [[Justice of the Peace|J.P.]] for [[Cheshire]], and was appointed [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of the county in 1901.<ref name="feb1901">{{London Gazette | issue=27290 |page=1500 | date=1 March 1901}}</ref> He was invested as a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] (K.C.B.) in 1902.<ref name=peerage>{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p24381.htm |title=the Peerage.com |access-date=}} citing: {{cite book|editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles A|title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107 |volume=1 |page=873 |location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd |date=2003}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27448|supplement=true|page=4191|date=26 June 1902}}</ref>
==Family, death and succession==
[[Image:Reaseheath Hall, nr Nantwich.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Reaseheath Hall, near [[Nantwich]]]]
On the death of his great-uncle [[Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell]], his maternal uncle Henry Richard Tomkinson made a [[deed of gift]] of the resulting inheritance in his favour. In accordance with a covenant of the will, on 10 July 1890, he assumed the surname and [[coat of arms|arms]] of Jodrell by Royal Licence and became known as Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell.<ref name="BLG1"/><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26077 |date=8 August 1890 |page=4327 |city=London}}</ref>


Cotton-Jodrell had residences in Cheshire in the Tomkinson family home at [[Reaseheath]] near [[Nantwich]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nantwich.plus.com/reaseheath/al/index.htm |title=Reaseheath, a short history |access-date=14 April 2009}}</ref> but also at [[Yeardsley]] and at [[Shallcross, Derbyshire|Shallcross]]. His London address was 13 [[Stratton Street]], former abode of his great-uncle.<ref name="Debrett"/><ref>{{citation |url=https://archive.org/details/b22343441/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater |url-access=registration| title=Letter to the Governors and other subscribers to St. George's Hospital |first=T.J |last=Philips-Jodrell |authorlink=Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell |publisher=Spottiswoode |date=1872 |page=18|oclc=969509709}}</ref>
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Cotton was elected at the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Wirral (UK Parliament constituency)|Wirral]] at the [[United Kingdom general election, 1885|1885 general election]] and held the seat until he stood down at the [[United Kingdom general election, 1900|1900 general election]].<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918
|origyear=1974
|edition= 2nd
|year=1989
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-27-2
|page=237
}}</ref> On 10 July 1890 his name was legally changed to Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell by Royal Licence.<ref>{{London Gazette
|issue= 26077
|date=8 August 1890
|page=4327
|city=London
}}</ref>


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Cotton-Jodrell married Mary Rennell Coleridge, daughter of William Rennell Coleridge of Salston, [[Ottery St Mary]], Devon, and Katherine Frances Barton, on 24 April 1878 and had two surviving daughters.<ref name=peerage/>
Cotton-Jodrell was [[Justice of the Peace|J.P.]] for [[Cheshire]], and was appointed [[Deputy Lieutenant]] of the county in 1901.<ref name="feb901">{{London Gazette | issue=27290 |page=1500 | date=1 March 1901}}</ref> 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.).<ref name=peerage>[http://thepeerage.com/p24381.htm the Peerage.com]</ref> in the [[1911 Coronation Honours]].
Cotton-Jodrell had residences at Yeardsley and Reaseheath, Nantwich, Cheshire, and at Shallcross, Cheshire.<ref>[http://www.nantwich.plus.com/reaseheath/al/index.htm Reaseheath Hall]</ref> He died at the age of 70.


He died on 17 October 1917, at the age of 70 and was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Dorothy Lynch Ramsden who, with her husband Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ramsden, assumed the surname and arms of Jodrell by Royal Licence on 15 March 1920.<ref>{{cite archive |item=Jodrell family of Whaley Bridge |item-url=https://calmview.derbyshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=D6539 |type=textual records |item-id=D6539 |date= |page= |pages= |fonds= |series= |file= |box= |collection=Records of people, families and historic houses |collection-url= |repository= |institution=[[Derbyshire Record Office]] |location=[[Matlock, Derbyshire|Matlock]] |oclc= |accession= |ref=}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|date=26 March 1920|issue=31837|page=3671}}</ref> The Jodrell Trust Estates were subsequently sold by auction on 14 November 1923.<ref name="JiscArchive">{{cite archive |first= |last= |item=Jodrell family, of Yeardsley cum Whaley, Cheshire, Jodrell Muniments 1286-1783 |item-url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-jod |type=Textual records|item-id= |date= |page= |pages= |fonds= |series= |file= |box= |collection=Archive Collection|collection-url= |repository= |institution=[[University of Manchester Library]] |location = The John Rylands Library, Deansgate|oclc= |accession= |ref=GB 133 JOD}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://furnesshistory.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_6.html|title=Sale of the Jodrell Estate|publisher=Furness Vale History Society |date=|access-date=3 November 2021}}</ref>
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Cotton-Jodrell married Mary Rennell Coleridge, daughter of William Rennell Coleridge and Katherine Frances Barton, on 24 April 1878 and had two surviving daughters.<ref name=peerage/>


==References==
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Sir
Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton Jodrell
KCB DL
Cotton-Jodrell in 1895.
Born
Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton

(1847-06-29)29 June 1847
Rugby
Died13 October 1917(1917-10-13) (aged 70)
EducationRugby School, Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Occupation(s)British Army Officer, Member of Parliament
SuccessorJoseph Hoult
Political partyConservative
Parents

Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell KCB DL (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.

Early life and education

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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, from 1852, headmaster of Marlborough College until appointed Bishop of Calcutta in 1858.[2] The young Edward Cotton was consequently educated at Rugby and Marlborough College before entering the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[3]

Military career

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On completing his military training he was promoted lieutenant on 15 July 1868.[4] He joined the Royal Artillery and became captain on 1 August 1879.[3][5] After having commenced his political career, he assumed command of the volunteer territorial Cheshire (Railway Battalion) of the Royal Engineers with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1888, and was granted the honorary rank of colonel ten years later.[6][7][8] He was on the Headquarters Staff of the War Office from 1906 to 1912 and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1909.[9][10]

Political and public career

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Cotton was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Wirral at the 1885 general election and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election.[11] Cotton-Jodrell was J.P. for Cheshire, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1901.[12] He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) in 1902.[9][13]

Family, death and succession

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Reaseheath Hall, near Nantwich

On the death of his great-uncle Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell, his maternal uncle Henry Richard Tomkinson made a deed of gift of the resulting inheritance in his favour. In accordance with a covenant of the will, on 10 July 1890, he assumed the surname and arms of Jodrell by Royal Licence and became known as Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell.[6][14]

Cotton-Jodrell had residences in Cheshire in the Tomkinson family home at Reaseheath near Nantwich,[15] but also at Yeardsley and at Shallcross. His London address was 13 Stratton Street, former abode of his great-uncle.[3][16]

Cotton-Jodrell married Mary Rennell Coleridge, daughter of William Rennell Coleridge of Salston, Ottery St Mary, Devon, and Katherine Frances Barton, on 24 April 1878 and had two surviving daughters.[9]

He died on 17 October 1917, at the age of 70 and was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Dorothy Lynch Ramsden who, with her husband Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ramsden, assumed the surname and arms of Jodrell by Royal Licence on 15 March 1920.[17][18] The Jodrell Trust Estates were subsequently sold by auction on 14 November 1923.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 4)
  2. ^ Arbuthnot, A. J.; Savage, . David W. "Cotton, George Edward Lynch (1813–1866)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6412. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench. Debrett's. 1886. p. 34.
  4. ^ "No. 23400". The London Gazette. 14 July 1868. p. 3940.
  5. ^ "No. 24748". The London Gazette. 1 August 1879. p. 4752.
  6. ^ a b Burke's Landed Gentry: Burke's Landed Gentry : A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry. Vol. 1 (9 ed.). 1898. p. 816.
  7. ^ "No. 25820". The London Gazette. 26 May 1888. p. 2956.
  8. ^ "No. 26999". The London Gazette. 27 August 1898. p. 5145.
  9. ^ a b c "the Peerage.com". citing: Mosley, Charles A, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 1 (107 ed.). Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 873.
  10. ^ "No. 28238". The London Gazette. 2 April 1909. p. 2597.
  11. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 237. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  12. ^ "No. 27290". The London Gazette. 1 March 1901. p. 1500.
  13. ^ "No. 27448". The London Gazette. 26 June 1902. p. 4191.
  14. ^ "No. 26077". The London Gazette. 8 August 1890. p. 4327.
  15. ^ "Reaseheath, a short history". Retrieved 14 April 2009.
  16. ^ Philips-Jodrell, T.J (1872), Letter to the Governors and other subscribers to St. George's Hospital, Spottiswoode, p. 18, OCLC 969509709
  17. ^ "Jodrell family of Whaley Bridge" [textual records]. Records of people, families and historic houses, ID: D6539. Matlock: Derbyshire Record Office.
  18. ^ "No. 31837". The London Gazette. 26 March 1920. p. 3671.
  19. ^ "Jodrell family, of Yeardsley cum Whaley, Cheshire, Jodrell Muniments 1286-1783" [Textual records]. Archive Collection. The John Rylands Library, Deansgate: University of Manchester Library.
  20. ^ "Sale of the Jodrell Estate". Furness Vale History Society. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
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