About Henry Cotton
Lived 1545 – 1615 (aged 69–70). Henry Cotton was an anglican priest and bishop.
Henry Cotton (c.1545–7 May 1615) was an English bishop.
Life He was the son of Sir Richard Cotton of Warblington, Hampshire, and his wife Jane Onley.
He was a godson to Elizabeth I of England, and one of her chaplains. He was rector of Havant in 1567.
He was elected Bishop of Salisbury on 28 September 1598. He gained Royal Assent on 24 October, was confirmed on 11 November, and consecrated at Lambeth the next day, and had the temporalities restored to him on 23 December 1598. In his time as bishop, a long-running struggle by the city of Salisbury for its charter was resolved, in 1612.
He died in 1615 and was buried "in his own church" beside his wife, as he had requested in his Will.
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Henry Cotton was an anglican priest and bishop.
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