William Cotterell
William Cotterell (c.1698–1744) was an eighteenth-century Church of Ireland priest. He was the third son of the courtier Charles Lodowick Cotterell and his second wife, Elizabeth Chute.[1][2]
Cotterell was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, admitted in 1716 at age 18,[3] and at Trinity College, Dublin.[4] He was ordained in 1724 by John Potter.[5]
Cotterell was Dean of Raphoe from 1725 until 1743;[6] and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin from then until his death on 21 June 1744.[7]
References
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Carter, Philip. "Cotterell, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6400. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Cotterell, William (CTRL716W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p182: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ "Cotterell, William (1724–1724) (CCEd Person ID 12547)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton,H. p362 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
- ^ “A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists” by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
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