Richard Lynch Cotton (14 August 1794 – 8 December 1880) was a British vicar and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.[1]
Cotton was born in Whitchurch, Oxfordshire,[2] the son of Henry Calveley Cotton and Matilda Lockwood, one of 11 children (eight sons and three daughters).[3] He was educated at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he attained a BA degree in 1815. He was a Fellow of the College from 1816 to 1838 and Provost from 1839 to 1880.[4] He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1839.While Provost at Worcester, Cotton also became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1852.
Cotton was Vicar of Denchworth, north of Wantage in Berkshire, from 1823 to 1838. He published his lectures and sermons.[5] On 25 June 1839, he married Charlotte Bouverie Pusey, daughter of Hon. Philip Pusey and Lady Lucy Sherard (daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough).[3] She lived at 38 St Giles' in Oxford, now part of St Benet's Hall, after Cotton's death during 1881–82.[6]
See also
- Sir Sydney John Cotton (1792–1874), elder brother
- Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (1803–1899), younger brother
References
Further reading
- Nockles, Peter B., ‘Cotton, Richard Lynch (1794–1880)’, rev. M. C. Curthoys,Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6423
- Burgon, John William, ‘Richard Lynch Cotton’. In Lives of Twelve Good Men, 1891. Archive.org.