Background
Cotton-Jodrell was the son of Rt. Review 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-Jodrell was the son of Rt. Review 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.
Rugby; Marlborough. Passed first in Artillery Commissions in June 1868, from Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
He joined the Royal Artillery and became captain. On 10 July 1890 his name was legally changed to Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell by Royal Licence. Cotton-Jodrell was Justice of the Peace 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 (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath). 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.
Conservative.
23rd United Kingdom Parliament. 24th United Kingdom Parliament. 25th United Kingdom Parliament.
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Cotton was elected at the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Wirral at the 1885 general election and held the seat until he stood down at the 1900 general election.