About John Cotton
Lived 1543 – 1621 (aged 77–78). John Cotton was a politician.
Sir John Cotton (1543? – 1620 or 1621), of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician.
Biography Cotton was the eldest son of John Cotton of Landwade, Cambridgeshire and his wife Isabell, daughter of Sir William Spencer of Althorp. He succeeded his father in 1594 and was knighted between 1597 and 1 October 1601.
He married three times: Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Caryll of Warnham, Sussex the mother of his son John.
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Who was John Cotton?
MP, died 1620/21
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John Cotton was born in 1543.
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John Cotton died in 1621.
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John Cotton was a politician.
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· DBpedia: John Cotton (MP died 1620 or 1621)
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Chicago: "John Cotton." Biography.guide. https://biography.guide/john-cotton/.
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