Charles Lodowick Cotterell
Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (10 August 1654 – 9 July 1710), was an English courtier.[lower-alpha 1]
Biography
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
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
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
- Also spelt Sir Charles Lodowick Cottrell.[1]
- Clayton 2009.
- Lee 1887, p. 291 cits Hearne, Coll. Oxf. Hist. Soc. ii. 112.
- "Londen den 18. Februarij". Ordinarie Stockholmiske Posttijdender (in Swedish). 14 March 1687. p. 7.
- Lee 1887, p. 291.
References
- Clayton, Roderick (May 2009) [2004]. "Cotterell, Sir Charles Lodowick (1654–1710)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6398. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney (1887). "Cotterell, Charles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 290–291.