Dictionary of Indian Biography/Cotton, Sir Willoughby
COTTON, SIR WILLOUGHBY (1783–1860)
Son of Admiral Rowland Cotton : cousin of Lord Combermere : born in 1783 : educated at Rugby (where he led a re-bellion) : entered the Guards, 1798 : served in Hanover, 1805 : Copenhagen, 1807; in the Peninsula, 1809–14 : went to India in 1821 : commanded a Brigade in the first Burmese war, 1825–6 : Maj-General and K.C.H., 1830 : commanded in Jamaica, 1829–34 : commanded the Bengal Division of the Army of the Indus, 1838–9 : K.C.B., 1838 : at Ghazni : left Kabul in 1839 for another command : G.C.B., 1840 : Lt-General, 1841 : C. in C. at Bombay, April, 1847, to Dec. 1850 : General, 1854 : Colonel of the 98th foot : and later of the 32nd foot : died May 4, 1860.