Friday, 20 April 2018
1889 Harry Cotton
Constituency : East Finsbury 1918
Harry took over from the deceased Joseph Baker at East Finsbury. He easily saw off two independents.
Harry was the son of the former Nottingham East MP Henry Cotton. He was born in India. He was educated at Sherborne School and Oxford. He became a barrister and practised in Calcutta. He was an India correspondent for first the Manchester Guardian and then the Daily News. He returned to England in 1906. He published Calcutta Old and New in 1909. He contested Dulwich in January 1910 but lost out to Bonar Law. Two months later he was elected a Progressive councillor on the L.C.C.
Harry stood for the new merged seat of Finsbury in 1918 but lost out to a couponed Conservative.
Harry became an alderman in 1918. He returned to India and was President of the Bengal Legislative Council from 1922 to 1925. He chaired the Indian Historical Records Commission over the same period.
He died in 1939 aged 70.
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