William Cotton (banker)

William Cotton
William Cotton by Matthew Noble 1855
Born	12 September 1786 Leytonstone, England, Great Britain
Died	1 December 1866 Walwood House, Leytonstone, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	inventor, merchant, philanthropist, Banker

William Cotton FRS (12 September 1786 – 1 December 1866) was an English inventor, merchant, philanthropist, and Governor of the Bank of England from 1842 to 1845.

Life

Cotton was born in Leytonstone, the son of Joseph Cotton, who made his fortune as a Captain with the East India Company and was later Deputy Master of Trinity House in 1803, and a director of the East India Company. He was educated at the nearby Chigwell Grammar School. His brother, John Cotton, later became a director and chairman of the East India Company.

In 1807 Cotton became a partner in the cordage manufacturers Huddart & Co., in Limehouse. He was later general manager, until 1838.

He became governor of the Bank of England in 1842, with the usual term of two years being extended to three in recognition of his securing a new charter for the bank with the passage of the 1844 Bank Charter Act. During his time at the bank, he developed a machine for the weighing of gold sovereigns, which was capable of weighing twenty-three coins every minute to an accuracy of one ten-thousandth of a grain. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1821.

He served as High Sheriff of Essex in 1838.^[1] In his lifetime Cotton was active in funding Canon Nathaniel Woodard's national network of Woodard Schools, and passive in the funding and establishment of new churches throughout the East End of London. He died on 1 December 1866 at Walwood House in Leytonstone.^[2]

Family

In 1812 he married Sarah Lane, a daughter of Thomas Lane of Leyton Grange. Their son William Charles Cotton was a clergyman and apiarist; Sarah Acland did good works; another son was the eminent jurist Henry Cotton and his sixth child, Agnes Cotton, was a philanthropist.^[3]

References

^ "No. 19586". The London Gazette. 1 February 1838. p. 232.
^ A. C. Howe, ‘Cotton, William (1786–1866)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 17 March 2017
^ Mary Clare Martin, ‘Cotton, Agnes (1828–1899)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 17 March 2017

External links

Works by William Cotton at Project Gutenberg
"William Cotton 1786 - 1866". Halhed genealogy & family trees. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
Lundy, Darryl. "Biography". The Peerage.
Everybody's Guide to Money Matters at chestofbooks.com

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Preceded by Sir John Henry Pelly	Governor of the Bank of England 1842–1845	Succeeded by John Benjamin Heath

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