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Henry Cotterill
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The Rt Rev Henry Cotterill (1812, Ampton 16 April 1886, Edinburgh) was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 19th century.[1][2] Henry Cotterill was born in Ampton in 1812 into an ecclesiastical family[3] of committed Church Evangelicals. His father Joseph (17801858) was Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk, and a prebendary of Norwich Cathedral. His mother was a close friend of Hannah More.[4] Educated at his father's old college, St John's College, Cambridge, he was both Senior Wrangler and headed the list of Classicists in 1835,[5] on the strength of which he was elected as a Fellow of his college.[6][7] Influenced by Charles Simeon, he was ordained in 1836 and went to India as Chaplain to the Madras Presidency the following year.[8][9] Forced by malaria to return to England in 1846, he became inaugural Vice Principal and then the second Principal of Brighton College.[9] In post less than six years, he reinvigorated the languishing infant school. In a whirlwind of energetic reform, he overhauled the curriculum by introducing the teaching of the sciences and oriental languages, restored discipline, launched a fund to build a chapel, built the first on-site boarding house and connected the school to the town's gas supply.[10] At the suggestion of the great Earl of Shaftesbury and Archbishop Sumner of Canterbury,[11] he was nominated and consecrated[12] in 1856 as the second Bishop of Grahamstown in South Africa. As was then customary, he was simultaneously created a doctor of divinity.[13] Translated to Edinburgh in 1871 as coadjutor bishop, full diocesan bishop from 1872,[14][15] he died in post in 1886 and was buried in his cathedral.[16] As one of the bishops of South Africa, he sat in judgement in December 1863 on the Bishop of Natal, John Colenso, his college friend from Cambridge days. He married Anna Isabella Parnther who had been born in Jamaica in 1812. They had at least two daughters and four sons.[17] The four boys all attended Brighton College. George Edward (18391913), a Cambridge cricket blue and Sussex crickter, was briefly Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Grahamastown (186365) before returning to teach at Brighton College (186581). Henry Bernard (18461924) was an African missionary explorer and writer. Joseph Montagu (18511933) played cricket for Sussex and became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was knighted. Arthur John (18491915) was Engineer-in-Chief, Egyptian Railways. His brother George was on the teaching staff of Brighton College 1849-51 before emigrating to New Zealand while, intriguingly, his youngest brother, James Henry, was a pupil at the school while he was the Principal. James Henry became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (187397) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878. Bishop Cotterill was buried before the sanctuary step in his cathedral. His grave is covered by a large memorial brass made by Skidmore of Coventry.

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1. ^ Diocesan profile (http://www.edinburgh.anglican.org/index.php/about/history/) 2. ^ Knowledge of Africa (http://knowledge4africa.com/worldhistory/proto-apartheid04.htm) 3. ^ Hymn writers of the Church (http://www.ccel.org/ccel/nutter/hymnwriters.CotteriJ.html)
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4. ^ Jones, Martin D. W. (1995) Brighton College 1845-1995. Chichester: Phillimore ISBN 0-85033-978-2, p.26 5. ^ Ten wranglers abroad (http://www.springerlink.com/content/q1119134l37g8306/) 6. ^ Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (19221958). "Cotterill, Henry (http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl? sur=&suro=c&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=CTRL829H&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50) ". Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press. 7. ^ Neale, Charles Montague (1907). The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. With biographical, & c., notes (http://www.archive.org/stream/senoirwranglerso00nealrich#page/34/mode/2up) . Bury St. Edmunds: Groom and Son. p. 34. http://www.archive.org/stream/senoirwranglerso00nealrich#page/34/mode/2up. Retrieved 2011-03-04. 8. ^ Priests, Chaplains and Missionaries in Madras (http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/priests/detail/priest_2988.html) 9. ^ a b Jones, Martin D. W. (1995) Brighton College 1845-1995. Chichester: Phillimore ISBN 0-85033-978-2, pp.26, 41 10. ^ Jones, Martin D. W. (1995) Brighton College 1845-1995. Chichester: Phillimore ISBN 0-85033-978-2, pp.4146, 50, 53-54, 116-117 11. ^ Jones, Martin D. W. (1995) Brighton College 1845-1995. Chichester: Phillimore ISBN 0-85033-978-2, p.46 12. ^ Consecration sermon (http://www.archive.org/details/truestrengthmiss00cott) 13. ^ Hefling, C. & Shattuck, C. (2006) The Oxford Guide to the "Book of Common Prayer": a worldwide survey. Oxford: OUP ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1 14. ^ Testimony of Church History (http://www.local-church-ground-testimony.org/local-church-1846/) 15. ^ The New Bishop Of Edinburgh.-The Right Rev H. Cotterill The Times Friday, Apr 28, 1871; pg. 11; Issue 27049; col D 16. ^ Obituary For 1886 The Times Saturday, Jan 01, 1887; pg. 3; Issue 31958; col E 17. ^ 1851 Census for 133 Marine Parade, Brighton plus biographical information in Brighton College Archives

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Works by or about Henry Cotterill (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no94-21684) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Religious titles Preceded by John Armstrong Preceded by Charles Terrot Bishop of Grahamstown 1856 1871 Bishop of Edinburgh 1871 1886 Succeeded by Nathaniel James Merriman Succeeded by John Dowden

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