Cotton, Bishop (1813‒1866)

Cotton, Bishop, born at Chester; eminent as a master at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, and as head-master at Marlborough College; was appointed Bishop of Calcutta, an office he fulfilled zealously; was drowned in the Ganges; he figures as “the young master” in “Tom Brown's School-days” (1813‒1866).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)