Edward Cotton-Jodrell

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.

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

Early life and education

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

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

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
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
  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. 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. 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. "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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