William Cotterell

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William Cotterell (c.1698–1744) was an eighteenth-century Church of Ireland priest. He was the third son of the courtier Charles Lodowick Cotterell and his second wife, Elizabeth Chute.[1][2]

Cotterell was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, admitted in 1716 at age 18,[3] and at Trinity College Dublin.[4] He was ordained in 1724 by John Potter.[5]

Cotterell was Dean of Raphoe from 1725 until 1743;[6] and Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin from then until his death on 21 June 1744.[7]

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1. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge:Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
2. ^ Carter, Philip. "Cotterell, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6400. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. ^ "Cotterell, William (CTRL716W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. ^ "Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p182: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
5. ^ "Cotterell, William (1724–1724) (CCEd Person ID 12547)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
6. ^ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p362 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
7. ^ "A New History of Ireland Vol XI: Maps, Genealogies, Lists" by Theodore William Moody, F. X. Martin, Francis John Byrne, Art Cosgrove: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5

Church of Ireland titles

Preceded by

John Trench

|  Dean of Raphoe
1725–1743  | Succeeded by

Arthur Smyth

Preceded by

George Stone

|  Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin
1743–1744  | Succeeded by

Robert Downes

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Deans of Raphoe

* John Albright
* Archibald Adair
* Alexander Cunningham
* John Leslie
* John Wellwood
* Ezekiel Hopkins
* Thomas Buttolph
* Capel Wiseman
* Nathanael Wilson
* John Trench
* William Cotterell
* Arthur Smyth
* Anthony Thompson
* William Barker
* Thomas Bray
* James King
* Lord Edward Chichester
* John Gwynn
* Edward Bowen
* Michael Bell Cox
* Richard Bennett
* Richard Baillie
* Joseph Potter
* William Kennedy
* John Pirrie Conerney
* John Watson
* Cyril Homan
* George Good
* Stephen Cave
* Sam Reede
* Stephen White
* John Hay
* Arthur Barrett

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Bishops of Ferns and Leighlin

* Hugh Allen
* Robert Grave
* Nicholas Stafford
* Thomas Ram
* George Andrews
* Robert Price
* Richard Boyle
* Narcissus Marsh
* Bartholomew Vigors
* Josiah Hort
* John Hoadly
* Arthur Price
* Edward Synge
* George Stone
* William Cotterell
* Robert Downes
* John Garnett
* Hon William Carmichael
* Thomas Salmon
* Richard Robinson
* Charles Jackson
* Edward Young
* Hon Joseph Bourke
* Walter Cope
* William Preston
* Euseby Cleaver
* Hon Percy Jocelyn
* Lord Robert Tottenham
* Thomas Elrington
* see united to Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin

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