Sir Charles Lodowick Cotterell (10 August 1654 – 9 July 1710), was an English courtier.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Biography

Cotterell, the eldest son of Sir Charles Cotterell, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of LL.D.; was incorporated D.C.L. of Oxford on 4 June 1708.^[2]

Cotterell succeeded to his father's position as Master of the Ceremonies in 1686. He was knighted on 18 February 1687.^[3] He was commissioner of the privy seal in April 1697; obtained the reversion of his mastership of the ceremonies for his son on 31 January 1699. He was robbed on Hounslow Heath on his way to Windsor on 4 June 1706, and died in July 1710.^[4]

Works

On the death of Prince George of Denmark in 1708, Cotterell published a "Whole Life" of that prince as a chapbook. A copy is in the Grenville Library at the British Museum.^[4]

Family

Cotterell married (1) Eliza, daughter of Nicholas Burwell of Gray's Inn, and (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Chaloner Chute.^[4] His eldest son by his first marriage Clement Cotterell (1686–1758) followed in his grandfather and fathers footsteps and became master of the ceremonies on his father's death.^[4]

Notes

References

• Clayton, Roderick (May 2009) [2004]. "Cotterell, Sir Charles Lodowick (1654–1710)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6398. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney (1887). "Cotterell, Charles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 290–291.