UK Elections Info

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Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Edward Cotton

Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton

Born: 29 June 1847

Died: 13 October 1917

Knighted - 19 June 1911

son of Rev George Edward Lynch Cotton

son of Sophia Ann Tomkinson

husband of Mary Rennell Coleridge

Rugby School

Marlborough College

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Army Officer

2 December 1885	Wirral	Conservative Party	4,756	59.32
2 July 1886	Wirral	Conservative Party	Unopposed
10 July 1890 Edward Cotton assumes the additional surname of Jodrell.
8 July 1892	Wirral	Conservative Party	5,599	64.73
13 July 1895	Wirral	Conservative Party	Unopposed
18 January 1906	Eddisbury	Conservative Party	4,192	44.09