Charles Herbert Cottrell

Charles Herbert Cottrell (27 November 18069 November 1860) was an Englishman who travelled to Siberia in 1840–41, produced an account of the experience, and translated plays and non-fiction works from German to English. At home, he qualified as a barrister and was a magistrate of Hertfordshire and Wiltshire.

Early life and family

Cottrell was born in Monken Hadley on 27 November 1806 to the Reverend Clement Cottrell and Georgiana Cottrell. He received his advanced education at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, from where he received his M.A. He probably acquired Hadley Lodge (destroyed by fire 1981) in Monken Hadley at the same time. He is recorded as living there in 1852 and was probably living there at the time of his death. In 1860, Cottrell was named as the chairman of the local board of The Society of Arts for Barnet.

Death and legacy Cottrell died on 9 November 1860. His account of his travels in Siberia was republished in the British Library's Historical Print Editions series in 2011.

Selected publications As author Recollections of Siberia, in the Years 1840 and 1841. John W. Parker, London, 1842. Religious movements of Germany in the nineteenth century. John Petheram, London, 1849.

As translator Schiller, Friedrich. (1843) Don Carlos, Infante of Spain; A dramatic poem, in five acts; translated from the German of Schiller. Barnet: J.J. Cowing. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman. Lepsius, R. (1846) A Tour from Thebes to the Peninsula of Sinai, &c.. London. (Translator into English) Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias. (1848) Egypt's Place in Universal History: An historical investigation in five books. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. (Translator into English)

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