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Charles Lodowick Cotterell

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Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (10 August 1654 – 9 July 1710), was an English courtier.[a] He was the author of "Whole life" on Prince George of Denmark.

Biography

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Cotterell, the eldest son of Sir Charles Cotterell, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL.D.; was incorporated D.C.L. of Oxford on 4 June 1708.[2]

Cotterell succeeded to his father's position as Master of the Ceremonies in 1686. He was knighted on 18 February 1687.[3] He was commissioner of the privy seal in April 1697; obtained the reversion of his mastership of the ceremonies for his son on 31 January 1699. He was robbed on Hounslow Heath on his way to Windsor on 4 June 1706, and died in July 1710.[4]

Works

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On the death of Prince George of Denmark in 1708, Cotterell published a "Whole Life" of that prince as a chapbook. A copy is in the Grenville Library at the British Museum.[4]

Family

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Cotterell married (1) Eliza, daughter of Nicholas Burwell of Gray's Inn, and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Chaloner Chute.[4] His eldest son by his first marriage Clement Cotterell (1686–1758) followed in his grandfather and fathers footsteps and became master of the ceremonies on his father's death.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ Also spelt Sir Charles Lodowick Cottrell.[1]
  1. ^ Clayton 2009.
  2. ^ Lee 1887, p. 291 cits Hearne, Coll. Oxf. Hist. Soc. ii. 112.
  3. ^ "Londen den 18. Februarij". Ordinarie Stockholmiske Posttijdender (in Swedish). 14 March 1687. p. 7.
  4. ^ a b c d Lee 1887, p. 291.

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