About William Cotton
Lived 1847 – 1917 (aged 69–70). William Cotton was a politician.
William Francis Cotton (1847 – 8 June 1917) was an Irish Nationalist politician. He sat for South Dublin in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
He was chairman of the Alliance and Dublin Gas Consumers Co. and A. Findlater and Company, as well as a director of the Dublin United Tramways Company and others. He was an alderman of Dublin Corporation and Sheriff of Dublin in 1901.
He won the seat at the December 1910 general election, narrowly defeating the Unionist incumbent, and held it until his death.
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(1847 -1917) British politician
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William Cotton was born in 1847.
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William Cotton died on 8 June 1917.
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William Cotton was a politician.
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