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Richard Lynch Cotton (14 August 1794 – 8 December 1880) was a British vicar and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.^[1]

Cotton was born in Whitchurch, Oxfordshire,^[2] the son of Henry Calveley Cotton and Matilda Lockwood, one of 11 children (eight sons and three daughters).^[3] He was educated at Charterhouse School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he attained a BA degree in 1815. He was a Fellow of the College from 1816 to 1838 and Provost from 1839 to 1880.^[4] He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1839. While Provost at Worcester, Cotton also became Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 1852.

Cotton was Vicar of Denchworth, north of Wantage in Berkshire, from 1823 to 1838. He published his lectures and sermons.^[5] On 25 June 1839, he married Charlotte Bouverie Pusey, daughter of Hon. Philip Pusey and Lady Lucy Sherard (daughter of Robert Sherard, 4th Earl of Harborough).^[3] She lived at 38 St Giles' in Oxford, now part of St Benet's Hall, after Cotton's death during 1881–82.^[6]

References

^ "Cotton, Richard Lynch". The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. I: A–F. Oxford University Press. 1995. p. 659.
^ "Richard Lynch Cotton". RA Collections. Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
^ ^a ^b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, vol. 1 (107th ed.), Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, p. 872, ISBN 978-0-9711966-2-9, retrieved 18 July 2020
^ H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel, ed. (1954). "Gloucester Hall and Worcester College". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford. Victoria County History. pp. 298–309. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
^ "Books by Richard Lynch Cotton". BerkelouW Books. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
^ "No. 38: St Benet's Hall". St Giles', Oxford. Oxford History, UK. Retrieved 11 June 2012.