A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Cotton, Alexander
COTTON. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Alexander Cotton is grandson of the late Sir John Hinde Cotton, Bart.; and a near relative of Admiral the late Sir Chas. Cotton, Bart.[1]
This officer entered the Navy 6 Sept. 1821; and, after receiving a slight wound, as Midshipman of the Talbot, at the battle of Navarin,[2] 20 Oct. 1827, obtained a commission 21 June, 1828. He joined, 3 March, 1830, the Galatea 42, Capt. Chas. Napier, fitting at Portsmouth, but went on half-pay a few months subsequently; and has not been since employed.
Lieut. Cotton married, 15 Aug. 1833, Marianne, youngest sister of the present Sir Chas. Wager Watson, Bart; and became a widower 19 Sept. 1838.
- ↑ Sir Charles Cotton commanded the Alarm frigate, as one of Rodney’s repeaters, in the action of 12 April, 1782. He was stationed, in the Majestic 74, next astern of the Royal George, in Howe’s action, 1 June, 1794; and was in the same ship in Cornwallis’ retreat, 16 and 17 June 1795. After having discharged the duties of Commander-in-Chief on the Newfoundland and Mediterranean stations, he died, of apoplexy, at the age of fifty-eight, 24 Feb. 1812.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1827, p. 2325.