Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cotton, Sir George

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​COTTON, SIR GEORGE (1842–1905)

Born in Ireland, 1842 : educated in England : went to Bombay in 1863, as Manager of East Indian Cotton Agency. In partnership with Mr. James Greaves commenced the firm of Greaves, Cotton & Co., Bombay, and James Greaves & Co., Manchester : Fellow of the Bombay University, Chairman of the Municipal Corporation, and Sheriff of Bombay in 1897 : knighted in 1897 : died Feb. 5, 1905.


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