George Edward Lynch Cotton
| George Edward Lynch Cotton | |
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| Bishop of Calcutta | |
Bishop Cotton
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| Church | Church of England |
| See | Calcutta |
| In office | 1858–1866 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
29 October 1813 Chester, England |
| Died | 6 October 1866 (aged 52) Kushtia, India |
George Edward Lynch Cotton or Bishop Cotton (29 October 1813 – 6 October 1866) was an English educator and clergyman, known for his connections with British India and the public school system.
He was born at Chester, a grandson of the late George Cotton, Dean of Chester. He received his education at The King's School, Chester,Westminster School, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Here he joined the Low Church party, and was a close friend of several disciples of Thomas Arnold, including CJ Vaughan and WJ Conybeare. Arnold's influence determined the character and course of Cotton's life.
He graduated BA in 1836, and became an assistant master at Rugby School. He became master of the fifth form in about 1840. In 1852 he accepted the appointment of headmaster at Marlborough College. Both Rugby School and Marlborough College boarding houses were subsequently named after him.
In 1858 Cotton was offered the office of the Bishop of Calcutta, which, after much hesitation, he accepted. The government of India had just been transferred from the British East India Company to the crown, and questions of education were eagerly discussed, following Macaulay's famous Minute on Indian Education. Cotton established schools for British and Eurasian children - the Bishop Cotton School Shimla and the Bishop Cotton Boys' School and Bishop Cotton Girls' School in Bangalore and Bishop cotton high school in nagpur which bear his name; he founded many other schools in India, including St. James' School in Calcutta and Cathedral and John Connon in Bombay. As the senior Anglican prelate in India, he also consecrated a number of new churches throughout the subcontinent, including St. Luke's Church, Abbottabad, and others on what then used to be the 'Punjab Frontier' and later became the North West Frontier Province.
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