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About Edward Cotton-Jodrell
- Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell (29 June 1847 – 13 October 1917), 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. Cotton-Jodrell was the son of Rt.
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- 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 Bishop of Calcutta.
- Cotton was educated at Rugby, Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
- He joined the Royal Artillery and became captain.
- Then with the Cheshire Royal Engineers (Railway Battalion) he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Cotton was elected at the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wirral at the 1885 general election and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election.
- On 10 July 1890 his name was legally changed to Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell by Royal Licence.Cotton-Jodrell was J.P.
- for Cheshire, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1901.
- 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.).
- in the 1911 Coronation Honours. Cotton-Jodrell had residences at Yeardsley and Reaseheath, Nantwich, Cheshire, and at Shallcross, Cheshire.
- He died at the age of 70. Cotton-Jodrell married Mary Rennell Coleridge, daughter of William Rennell Coleridge and Katherine Frances Barton, on 24 April 1878 and had two surviving daughters.
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