Vere Egerton Cotton

Colonel Vere Egerton Cotton C.B.E. (1882–1970) was a British Army officer and politician who served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool.

Biography Cotton was born in London 5 May 1882 and was the youngest son of Charles Calveley Cotton. Colonel Cotton was educated at Repton School and Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was an exhibitioner in 1910. He was a senior partner in Rathbone Brothers and Company, merchants in Liverpool.

Cotton was commissioned in the 4th West Lancashire Brigade and during the first World War he served in France, Belgium and Italy. He was made an Officer of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year honours, awarded the Croix de Guerre and Croce di Guerra and held the Territorial Decoration. From 1932 to 1936 he commanded the 359th Regiment, R.A., T.A., and retired from the army as a Lieutenant-Colonel. and High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1956.

He is the father of Henry Egerton Cotton, Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside.