About Nathaniel Cotton
Lived 1707 – 1788 (aged 80–81). Nathaniel Cotton was a poet.
Nathaniel Cotton (; 1707 – 2 August 1788) was an English physician and poet. Cotton specialised in the care of patients with mental health issues, maintaining an asylum known as the Collegium Insanorum, at St Albans. William Cowper was one of his patients and held Cotton in high regard.
Cotton was also a published poet, whose poems were described by Cheever as "full of good sense, benevolence, and piety"
After Cotton's death the asylum was run by Dr Stephen Pellet.
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Nathaniel Cotton died on 2 August 1788.
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