Sydney Cotton
British Army officer
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| Intro | British Army officer | |
| A.K.A. | Sydney John Cotton Sir Sydney John Cotton | |
| A.K.A. | Sydney John Cotton Sir Sydney John Cotton | |
| Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
| was | Military personnel | |
| Work field | Military | |
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| Birth | 2 December 1792 | |
| Death | 19 February 1874 (aged 81 years) |
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Biography
Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton GCB (2 December 1792 – 19 February 1874) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Born the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote, Oxfordshire, England, and his wife Matilda, daughter and heiress of John Lockwood of Dews Hall, Essex, Cotton joined the British Army in 1810 as a Cornet in the 22nd Light Dragoons. He served extensively in Australia (1835 to 1842) and India (1810 to 1835 and 1842 to 1863, including service throughout the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58).
For his frontier services Cotton was appointed KCB and after returning to England he became General Officer Commanding Northern District in July 1865. He was promoted to lieutenant-General in 1866 and, after publishing "Nine Years on the North-West Frontier of India from 1854 to 1863" in 1868, he was advanced to GCB in 1872.
He was Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1872 until 1874.
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London.
He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.
Mount Cotton, Queensland is named after him.