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Cottrell was born in in 1806 to Clement and Georgiana Cottrell.
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Charles Cottrell
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At home, he was a magistrate of Hertfordshire and Wiltshire. He received his advanced education at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, from where he received his Master of Arts According to John Burke, the Cottrell family had its origins in the French Albigenses. Burke wrote that "Cotterel the Norman" was given land in Derby by King Henry III in 1235.
An 1852 gazetteer reported that Charles Herbert Cottrell was descended from Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell, who was master of ceremonies at the end of the seventeenth century, and on the maternal side from Chaloner Chute of Hampshire who was speaker of Cromwell"s parliament.
He probably acquired Hadley Lodge (destroyed by fire 1981) in at the same time. He is recorded as living there in 1852 and probably was living there at the time of his death.
In 1860, Cottrell was named as the chairman of the local board of The Society of Arts for Barnet. Cottrell died in 1860.
