Men-at-the-Bar/Cotton, Right Hon. Sir Henry

by Joseph Foster

Cotton, Right Hon. Sir Henry, D.C.L., P.C. 1877, lord justice of appeal since 1877, vice-chairman of the Council of Legal Education, educated at Eton, M.A., Christ Church, Oxon, 1845, counsel to Oxford Univ. 1872-7, a student of Lincoln's Inn 17 Jan., 1843 (then aged 21), called to the bar 29 Jan., 1846, Q.C. 15 Dec, 1866, bencher 11 Jan., 1867 (2nd son of William Cotton, Esq., of