February 1812-1886 A.D. Henry Cotterill—Scots Episcopal Minister and Bishop of Edinburgh

February 1812-1886 A.D. Henry Cotterill—Scots Episcopal Minister and Bishop of Edinburgh

Henry Cotterill

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Henry Cotterill
Bishop of Grahamstown and Bishop of Edinburgh
Church	Anglican
Diocese	Grahamstown
In office	1812 – 1896
Predecessor	John Armstrong
Successor	Nathaniel Merriman
Orders
Ordination	1836
Consecration	1856
Personal details
Born	1812 Ampton
Died	16 April 1886 Edinburgh

The Rt Rev Henry Cotterill (1812, Ampton – 16 April 1886, Edinburgh) was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 19th century.

Contents 

·         1 Early life

·         2 Bishop of Grahamstown

·         3 Translation to Edinburgh

·         4 Family life

·         5 Published works

·         6 Notes and references

·         7 External links

Early life

Henry Cotterill was born in Ampton in 1812 into an ecclesiastical family^[1] of committed Church Evangelicals. His father Joseph (1780 – 1858) was Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk, and a prebendary of Norwich Cathedral. His mother was a close friend of Hannah More.^[2] Educated at his father's old college, St John's College, Cambridge, he was both Senior Wrangler and headed the list of Classicists in 1835,^[3] on the strength of which he was elected as a Fellow of his college.^[4][5] Influenced by Charles Simeon, he was ordained in 1836 and went to India as Chaplain to the Madras Presidency the following year.^[6][7] Forced by malaria to return to England in 1846, he became inaugural Vice Principal and then the second Principal of Brighton College.^[7] In post less than six years, he reinvigorated the languishing infant school. In a whirlwind of energetic reform, he overhauled the curriculum by introducing the teaching of the sciences and oriental languages, restored discipline, launched a fund to build a chapel, built the first on-site boarding house and connected the school to the town's gas supply.^[8]

Bishop of Grahamstown

At the suggestion of the great Earl of Shaftesbury and Archbishop Sumner of Canterbury,^[9] he was nominated and consecrated^[10] in 1856 as the second Bishop of Grahamstown^[11] in South Africa. As was then customary, he was simultaneously created a doctor of divinity.^[12]

Cotterill was consecrated on 23 November 1856, and arrived in Grahamstown in May 1857. Bishop Cotterill's episcopate was occupied with the development and consolidation of his diocese, and with the institution of diocesan and provincial synods. The opening service of the first synod of the diocese was held in the Grahamstown Cathedral on 20 June 1860. It may be of interest to record that H. Blaine and F. Carlisle were the representatives of the Cathedral congregation at the synod.

As one of the bishops of South Africa, he sat in judgement in December 1863 on the Bishop of Natal, John Colenso, his college friend from Cambridge days.

Translation to Edinburgh

He was translated to Edinburgh in 1871 as coadjutor bishop, full diocesan bishop from 1872,^[13] he died in post in 1886 and was buried in his cathedral.^[14]

Family life

He married Anna Isabella Parnther who had been born in Jamaica in 1812. They had at least two daughters and four sons.^[15]The four boys all attended Brighton College. George Edward (1839 – 1913), a Cambridge cricket blue and Sussex cricketer, was briefly Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Grahamstown (1863 – 65) before returning to teach at Brighton College (1865 – 81). Henry Bernard (1846 – 1924) was an African missionary explorer and writer. Joseph Montagu (1851 – 1933) played cricket for Sussex and became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was knighted. Arthur John (1849 – 1915) was Engineer-in-Chief, Egyptian Railways.

His brother George was on the teaching staff of Brighton College 1849 – 51 before emigrating to New Zealand while, intriguingly, his youngest brother, James Henry, was a pupil at the school while he was the Principal. James Henry became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1873 – 97) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1878.

Bishop Cotterill died in 1886^[16] and was buried before the sanctuary step in his cathedral. His grave is covered by a large memorial brass made by Francis Skidmore^{[citation needed]} of Coventry.

Published works

His published works include

·         Does Science Aid Faith in Regard to Creation?. Kessinger Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-1-164-62331-1.

·         The Genesis of the Church. William Blackwood and Sons. 1872.

·         The Seven Ages of the Church; Or, the Seven Apocalyptic Epistles Interpreted by Church History. George Bell. 1849.

·         A Letter on the Present Position of the South African Church. Bell & Daldy. 1865.

·         Revealed Religion Expounded by Its Relations to the Moral Being of God. Kessinger Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-1-166-94841-2.

·         My Work for God. Kessinger Publishing. 2010. ISBN 978-1-166-57964-7.

·         On the True Relations of Scientific Thought and Religious Belief. Hardwicke & Bogue. 1878.

Notes and references

1.     Jump up^ Nutter 1911.

2.     Jump up^ Jones 1995.

3.     Jump up^ Craik 2008, pp. 254–.

4.     Jump up^ "Cotterill, Henry (CTRL829H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

5.     Jump up^ Neale 1907, p. 34.

6.     Jump up^ Johnson, Jon. "Details of HENRY COTTERILL". Details of Priests, Chaplains, Missionaries in Madras. Retrieved2014-09-08.

7.     ^ Jump up to:^a b Jones 1995, pp. 26, 41.

8.     Jump up^ Jones 1995, pp. 41 – 46, 50, 53 – 54, 116 – 117.

9.     Jump up^ Jones 1995, p. 46.

10.  Jump up^ Cotton 1856.

11.  Jump up^ "Consecration Of Bishops". The Ipswich Journal. 29 November 1856. p. 1 col F. Retrieved 2014-09-08 – via British Newspaper Archive.

12.  Jump up^ Hefling & Shattuck 2008.

13.  Jump up^ The New Bishop Of Edinburgh.-The Right Rev H. CotterillThe Times Friday, Apr 28, 1871; p. 11; Issue 27049; col D

14.  Jump up^ Obituary For 1886 The Times Saturday, Jan 01, 1887; p. 3; Issue 31958; col E

15.  Jump up^ 1851 Census for 133 Marine Parade, Brighton plus biographical information in Brighton College Archives

16.  Jump up^ "Death Of Bishop Cotterill". Dundee Courier. 20 April 1886. p. 2 col G. Retrieved 2014-09-08 – via British Newspaper Archive.

·         Jones, Martin D. W. (1995). Brighton College, 1845 – 1995. Phillimore. ISBN 978-0-85033-978-9.

·         Nutter, Charles S. (1911). The Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church. Nashville, New York and Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains, Jennings &. Graham, Smith & Lamar.

·         Craik, Alex D. D. (2008). Mr Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the 19th Century. Springer.ISBN 978-1-84628-791-6.

·         Neale, Charles Montague (1907). The senior wranglers of the University of Cambridge, from 1748 to 1907. With biographical, & c., notes. Bury St. Edmunds: Groom and Son. Retrieved2011-03-04.

·         Hefling, Charles; Shattuck, Cynthia (2008). The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer A Worldwide Survey. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-529762-1.

·         Cotton, George Edward Lynch (1856). The true strength and mission of the church : a sermon. London: Rivingtons.

External links

·         Works by or about Henry Cotterill in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by John Armstrong	Bishop of Grahamstown 1856 – 1871	Succeeded by Nathaniel James Merriman
Scottish Episcopal Church titles
Preceded by Charles Terrot	Bishop of Edinburgh 1871 – 1886	Succeeded by John Dowden